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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780354503321

Autore

Gill Indermit Singh <1961->

Titolo

Crafting Labor Policy [[electronic resource] ] : Techniques and Lessons from Latin America

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, : World Bank Publications, 2001

ISBN

1-280-08811-7

9786610088119

0-585-46037-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

MontenegroClaudio E

DömelandDörte <1971->

Disciplina

331.12/042/098

Soggetti

Labor policy - Latin America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; 1 Labor Reform in Latin America during the 1990's ; PART I: Public and Private Sector Labor Markets in Brazil; 2 Improving Public Sector Efficiency in Brazil; 3 Assessing the Impact of Regulations on Informal Workers in Brazil ; PART II: Labor Supply and Labor Demand in Argentina; 4 Understanding Labor Supply Dynamics in Argentina ; 5 Increasing Labor Demand in Argentina; PART III: Earnings and Employment Outcomes in Chile; 6 Responding to Earnings Differentials in Chile

7 Dealing with Employment Instability in Chile 8 Some Guidelines for the New Decade: Summary and Conclusions; Technical Annexes; A Technical Annex to Chapter 2: The Public- Private Wage Gap; B Technical Annex to Chapter 5: Wage and Output Elasticities of Labor Demand; C Technical Annex to Chapter 6: The Quantile Regression; D Technical Annex to Chapter 7: Haindl   s Labor Flows Model; Contributors; Index