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Quality of employment in Latin America: Theory and evidence
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2015)
Historically, the development literature concerned with Latin American labour markets has
focused on job numbers and productivity. But given the persistence of large shares of informal
and now otherwise precarious ...
Labour markets, worker protection and lifelong learning in a global economy: experiences and perspectives of Latin America and the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2008-04)
Despite the expansion of the world economy in recent years, the employment situation remains uncertain, with a high percentage of the labour force unemployed or engaged in occupations that do not enable workers to escape ...
Flexible labour markets, workers' protection and active labour market policies in the Caribbean
(ECLAC, 2009-07)
This study examines the application of the flexicurity labour system in the Caribbean countries of Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago. The flexicurity system has its origins in Denmark and combines elements of labour ...
The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Conditional transfer programmes and the labour market
(ECLACILO, 2014-05)
The employment situation in Latin America and the Caribbean is a twice-yearly report prepared jointly by the Economic Development Division of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) and the ...
Finance and Labour Reallocation: The consequences of a liquidation reform
(2018-03-28)
In 2005, the Brazilian bankruptcy law was changed to improve secured creditor’s protection. I explore the bankruptcy reform together with heterogeneity of the judicial efficiency, at the municipal level, and heterogeneity ...
So Far, so Similar? Labour Market Feminization in Italy and Chile
(Springer, 2021)
The article aims to analyse gender segregation in the labour market while comparing two national contexts in Europe and Latin America. Specifically, it will consider the growth trends of female employment in the last 25 ...
Worldwide Scientific Production Indexed by Scopus on Labour Relations
This article examines the features of the worldwide contributions to the specialized literature in labour relations in the period 1970–2016. The source considered has been the Scopus Elsevier database, together with ...
Recent decline in wage inequality and formalization of the labour market in Argentina
(Routledge, 2015-09)
Labour market conditions improved during the 2000s in Latin America, a process that included a reduction in the magnitude of informal employment. A decline of wage inequality was another feature of this period. Both dynamics ...
Informality and employment quality in Argentina: country case study on labour market segmentation
(International Labour Organization, 2014)
This working paper examines employment quality and labour market segmentation in Argentina. The labour market in the country is marked by heterogeneity; the rate of informal employment is high, though it diminished ...