Crafting labor policy : techniques and lessons from Latin America

Intro -- Contents -- Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- 1 Labor Reform in Latin America during the 1990s -- 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.