Labor Markets, Economic Restructuring and Human Resource Development in Latin America
Author : Luis Riveros C.
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Human capital
ISBN :
Author : Luis Riveros C.
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 31,68 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Human capital
ISBN :
Author : Luis Riveros
Publisher :
Page : 37 pages
File Size : 36,52 MB
Release : 1993
Category :
ISBN :
Author : Maragret Black
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 42,66 MB
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1351759442
This title was first published in 2003. An analysis of education and training issues from the perspective of a planner, this book is the culmination of three years' research stemming from a concern by governments over how they can manage change and what contribution education and training policies play in this.
Author : Margaret Black
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 13,71 MB
Release : 2024-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1040288111
This title was first published in 2003. An analysis of education and training issues from the perspective of a planner, this book is the culmination of three years' research stemming from a concern by governments over how they can manage change and what contribution education and training policies play in this.
Author : Inter-American Development Bank
Publisher : IDB
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781931003506
Annotation There is a widespread perception that the structural reforms implemented in Latin America in the 1990s have failed to spur employment growth. This perception is fueled by rising unemployment, slow wage growth, rising wage inequalities and a heightened sense of economic insecurity. This year's edition of Economic and Social Progress in Latin America investigates whether this disappointing outcome can be explained by an abnormal adjustment to rapid changes in goods and capital markets, increased female participation in the workplace, technological change, and secular changes in the sector composition of output. In particular, the book examines whether there are important demands for change that are being thwarted by inappropriate institutions and rigidities. The report documents unemployment and underemployment, employment creation and destruction, productivity growth, and the wage level and inequality. It includes a CD-ROM with data on labor markets in the region.
Author : Jacqueline Mazza
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 13,98 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Human capital
ISBN :
Author : Helena Ribe
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 37,65 MB
Release : 2012-03-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821389068
This study highlights the interaction between social protection (SP) programs and labor markets in the Latin America region. It presents new evidence on the limited coverage of existing programs and emphasizes the challenges caused by high informality for achieving universal social protection for old age income, health, unemployment risks and anti-poverty safety nets. It identifies interaction effects between SP programs and the behavioral responses of workers, firms and social protection providers, which can further undermine efforts to expand coverage, summarizing evidence from recent work across the region. The book argues for a re-design of financing to eliminate cross subsidies between members of contributory programs and subsidies that effectively tax income from formal employment. It advocates well-targeted, tax-funded, tapered subsidies to provide incentives to the savings efforts of low-income workers, coupled with an effective safety net for the extreme poor who have no capacity to contribute to financing their own social protection arrangements. It also argues for the consolidation of programs and harmonization of benefits packages across different insurers. The book develops an overall conceptual framework and presents in-depth analysis of the main SP sectors of pensions, health, unemployment insurance and labor market programs, and safety net transfers.
Author : J. Luis Guasch
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 30,29 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780821344156
Despite the resumption of economic growth in most Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) countries since the late 1980s, improvements on the employment/unemployment front fave been sluggish at best, with a few notable exceptions. In many countries, renewed growth in LAC in the 1990s has so far failed to generate adequate new jobs in place of those lost during the adjustment , and to restore wages to precrisis levels. After a number of years of relatively high economic growth, the employment outlook in many countries remains worrisome. In those countries where unemployment rates appear to be low, often as a result of how they are measured, the concern is the low quality and renumeration levels of available jobs.
Author : James J. Heckman
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 37,51 MB
Release : 2007-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0226322858
Law and Employment analyzes the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets and presents empirically grounded studies of the costs of regulation. Numerous labor regulations that were introduced or reformed in Latin America in the past thirty years have had important economic consequences. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman and Carmen Pagés document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. Using new micro-evidence, this volume shows that labor regulations reduce labor market turnover rates and flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Jamaica, and Trinidad, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis of Latin American economies against a range of European countries and the United States. The book breaks new ground by quantifying not only the cost of regulation in Latin America, the Caribbean, and in the OECD, but also the broader impact of this regulation.
Author : Mariano Bosch
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 16,83 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1597821780
The Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region has reduced its inequality and poverty, and is looking towards the future with greater optimism than in the past. As the region grows, new problems appear that economic policymakers must address. How to provide adequate pensions for the elderly is one such problem. This book offers an analysis of pension systems from the perspective of the functioning of the regions labor markets. It clarifies why, more than half a century after pension systems were created, only a minority of workers in the region save for their pension in the contributory systems through payroll taxes. The study points out that the problem lies not only in the lack of coverage, but also in the low level of benefits, even of contributory pensions. It argues that to design public policies for pensions, it is essential to understand the complex web of interactions between employers and workers that take place in the labor market.