Please note: In order to keep Hive up to date and provide users with the best features, we are no longer able to fully support Internet Explorer. The site is still available to you, however some sections of the site may appear broken. We would encourage you to move to a more modern browser like Firefox, Edge or Chrome in order to experience the site fully.

Supporting your high street Find out how »
Labor Markets in Latin America : Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility, Hardback Book

Labor Markets in Latin America : Combining Social Protection with Market Flexibility Hardback

Edited by Sebastian Edwards, Nora Claudia Lustig

Hardback

Item not Available

Description

Many of the rules that govern labor markets in Latin America (and elsewhere) raise labor costs, create barriers to entry, and introduce rigidities in the employment structure.

These include the exceedingly restrictive regulations on hiring and firing practices, as well as burdensome social insurance schemes.

Such labor market regulations contribute to an over-expansion of precarious forms of employment and to rural poverty, and hinder countries from responding rapidly to new challenges from increased foreign competition.

At the same time, other norms can reduce costs and raise productivity; they should be kept in place and their enforcement improved.

For example, some occupational health and safety standards lower medical costs and save lives.

One may also want to keep legislation aimed at providing a minimum social insurance for unemployment, old age, sickness, and disabilities.

In practice, the most common decision that governments confront is not whether to intervene but to choose among different forms of intervention.

This volume provides analysts and policymakers with useful insights on this issue.

Part I addresses labor market institutions in a broader context, such as collective bargaining arrangements, minimum wages and poverty, and optimal unemployment insurance schemes.

Part II analyzes labor market performance in Latin America, the links between performance and labor market regulations, and the status of labor market reform in the region.

These questions are addressed for the region as a whole and in great detail for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Colombia.

The book provides a comprehensive description of the existing labor institutions in Latin America, the problems they pose, and the trends in labor market reforms as well as the difficulties encountered by the reform process in specific cases.

In addition to the editors, the contributors are Edward Amadeo, Jose Marcio Camargo, Alejandra Cox Edwards, Rene Cortazar, Enrique Davila, Marta Lus Henao, Eduardo Lora, Hugo Hopenhayn, Darryl McLeod, Juan Pablo Nicolini, John Pencavel, and Carola Pessino.

Information

Save 16%

£46.50

£38.75

Item not Available
Item not Available
Sign in to add to wishlist
 
Free Home Delivery

on all orders

 
Pick up orders

from local bookshops

Information