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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

Heckman, James J.; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a … microdata data. The evidence shows that regulation reduces labor market flexibility, reduces the employment of marginal workers …

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Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Caruso Bloeck, Martin - 2017

This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ball, Laurence M. - 2011

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America

Caruso Bloeck, Martin; Galiani, Sebastián; … - 2021

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...

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The Cost of Job Security Regulation : Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets

Heckman, James J.; Pagés, Carmen - 2021

on employment. We show that job security policies have substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment … in Latin America. They reduce employment and promote inequality. The institutional organization of the labor market … affects both employment and inequality …

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Nominal Wage Rigidity in Village Labor Markets

Kaur, Supreet - 2014

not adjust back down. This ratcheting effect generates a 9% reduction in employment levels. Inflation enables downward …

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Seasonal Liquidity, Rural Labor Markets and Agricultural Production

Fink, Guenther - 2018

Many rural households in low and middle income countries continue to rely on small-scale agriculture as their primary source of income. In the absence of irrigation, income arrives only once or twice per year, and has to cover consumption and input needs until the subsequent harvest. We develop...

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Seasonal Credit Constraints and Agricultural Labor Supply : Evidence from Zambia

Fink, Guenther - 2014

Small-scale farming remains the primary source of income for a majority of the population in developing countries. While most farmers primarily work on their own fields, off-farm labor is common among small-scale farmers. A growing literature suggests that off-farm labor is not the result of...

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Incentives, Selection and Productivity in Labor Markets : Evidence from Rural Malawi

Guiteras, Raymond P. - 2014

An observed positive relationship between compensation and productivity cannot distinguish between two channels: (1) an incentive effect and (2) worker selection. We use a simplified Becker-DeGroot-Marschak mechanism, which provides random variation in piece rates conditional on revealed...

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Analyzing the Impact of the World's Largest Public Works Project on Crime

Das, Satadru - 2016

three years. The program quarantees 100 days of employment per year at minimum wage to each rural household on demand, with … employment impact on various types of crimes, ranging from burglary to kidnapping to riots. We show that the program acts as an … for jobs under the program. Controlling for rainfall, we find that employment generated by the program has a negative …

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