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

• Pubblicazione: Washington, DC, : World Bank; Oxford, England, : Oxford University Press, c2002
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (300 pages)
• Disciplina: 331.12/042/098
• Soggetto topico: Labor policy - Latin America
• Altri autori: GillIndermit Singh <1961-> MontenegroClaudio DomelandDorte <1971->
• 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Crafting labor policy
• ISBN: 1-280-08811-7; 9786610088119; 0-585-46037-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910968646703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II