This paper presents the results of a survey of micro-enterprises undertaken in Ecuador and Jamaica. The purpose was to understand the relationships between these countries' institutional and legal regulations, the degree of compliance by firms and the impact of compliance on their performance...

Considering that the labor force framework is inadequate to understand employment problems in the rural sector, this paper discusses some methodological issues which may prove useful for the classification of the labor force and the analysis of its underu

En el presente artículo se hace una revisión de los distintos marcos conceptuales para analizar el mercado del trabajo, sugiriéndose que un enfoque ecléctico de segmentación resulta el más relevante para explicar el funcionamiento del mismo en América Latina. En el trabajo, se identifican...