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Port privatization, labour reform and social equity
(1995-12)
Governments of the ECLAC region have promulgated labour regimes which support port workers' desire for stable wages and job security, isolate them from market signals and create cargo-handling monopolies. The advent of a ...
SLAVE-LIKE LABOR IN BRAZIL IN TIMES OF RIGHTS TRANCE
(Univ Estadual Paulista Julio Mesquita Filho, Fac Ciencias & Tecnologia, 2019-01-01)
This text discusses the work analogous to slave labour in Brazil, emphasizing the controversies regarding the contemporary slave labour concept. We analysed data from the inspections of slave-like labour carried out jointly ...
Labour market fluidity and employment outcomes in Colombia: evidence from employer-employee linked data
(2019-04-15)
Labour market flexibility has been a traditional subject of study in labour economics; recent literature has focused on the related concept of fluidity, broadly understood as the mobility of workers and jobs in the labour ...
Economic growth and the quality labour market of jobs created: a Brazilian case and some implications to Latin America
(2014)
An outcome of economic growth is increased employment, but this should not be the only measure to assess a country's labour market, it is also important to verify whether the jobs created are considered good jobs. Thus, ...
Caribbean labour market challenges and policies
(ECLAC, 2006-03)
This paper examines the challenges facing the labour market in the Caribbean. It uses a combination of past studies and interviews with key informants to identify the key challenges and main policy responses. The main ...
Informality and labour market segmentation: the case of Argentina
(2015-12)
The document evaluates the presence of segmentation in the Argentinean labour market. The analysis is centred on the comparison of the earnings of formal and informal workers. Two different approaches to the definition of ...
The urban female labour market in Latin America: the myth and the reality
(ECLAC, 1998-07)
Latin America has partly overcome the short-term adjustment stage following the external debt crisis and is now in a stage of restructuring marked by opening up to external markets. These changes, which have included the ...