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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968646703321

Titolo

Crafting labor policy : techniques and lessons from Latin America / / edited by Indermit S. Gill, Claudio E. Montenegro, Dorte Domeland

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC, : World Bank

Oxford, England, : Oxford University Press, c2002

ISBN

1-280-08811-7

9786610088119

0-585-46037-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (300 pages)

Altri autori (Persone)

GillIndermit Singh <1961->

MontenegroClaudio

DomelandDorte <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 bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

Sommario/riassunto

This title presents a set of studies on labour market issues in Argentina, Brazil and Chile, based on work sponsored by the World



Bank since 1999. Some of the leading labour economists in the three countries covered have co-authored these studies with the editors.