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 ...

The objective of this paper is twofold: to show how Law and Economics can be an effective tool in the analysis of labour law, and through its application to evaluate the potential effects of Brazil’s 2017 Labour Law reform. ...

In February of 2010 a Law on Equal Opportunities and Social Inclusion of Persons with Disabilities, the Law N. 20.422, was enacted in Chile. One of the aims of this reform was to improve the labour inclusion for the ...

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 ...

This study identifies a causal effect of the labour reform given by Peruvian Legislative Decree N 892 on firm performance. The labour reform states that firms must share profits with their employees when they have more ...

This paper aims to investigate the implications of educational reform, in the last twenty years to the career of teaching category of Sao Paulo. We assume that the new educational policies implemented by the Education ...

Chile is undertaking an ambitious public education reform, re-centralising the administration of municipal schools in larger territories. This reform is unprecedented, both for the size of the new intermediate-level services ...

Foreword At the start of the new decade, the debate on economic policy centres on the consequence of the reforms implemented in Latin America and the Caribbean in the last two decades. Trade and financial liberalization ...

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 ...