This article seeks to make an orderly summary of the information on urban female labour in Latin America in the 1990s and thus make a contribution to an updated diagnosis of the female labour market to help serve in the ...

Brazilian labour markets are rather flexible in macroeconomic terms while also displaying microeconomic rigidity. Macroeconomic flexibility is characterized by the significant growth in employment in both good and bad ...

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 ...

Life as a Democratic Labour Party (DLP) member and female parliamentarian

This document analyzes the effect of the expansion in availability of the emergency con- traceptive pill (ECP) between 2011 and 2017 in a middle income country setting. Exploiting variation in ECP availability across ...

The relationship between female labour force participation (FLFP) and economic development is far more complex than it is often described in academic literature. Most studies have relied on income as the only proxy for ...

Chile's labour force participation is low in comparison with Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Latin American countries on average, especially among females and youths. This article estimates ...

This document describes the methodology used in the Dominican Republic with initial funding from PACT (Private Agencies Collaborating Together) and the Dominican Government. The programme began in 1977 with a loan to a ...