Latin America has experienced a process of significant improvement in the labour market during the new millennium. In spite of these advances, these countries continue to suffer from remarkable deficits in their labour markets. The high incidence of informality becomes a source of low wages and lack of social security benefits. Even within formal employment, the significant prevalence of non-permanent contracts frequently leads to consequences similar to those of informal occupations. This paper analyses fixed-term contracts in eight Latin American countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay and Peru. We aim at estimating the incidence, evolution and characteristics of this phenomenon and assessing to what ext...
The analysis of the informal sector is very relevant in Latin America. More than half of the workers...
The high rhythm of economic growth experienced by Latin America between 2003 and 2008 has had a posi...
Artículo de publicación ISISin acceso a texto completoHistorically, the development literature conce...
América Latina ha experimentado un proceso de mejora significativa en el mercado laboral durante el ...
During the 2000s and early 2010s, Latin America experienced a process of significantimprovement in t...
Since the 2000s an increasing trend in labour formality has been observed in several Latin American ...
In this paper we analyze the current status of the workers hired through Temporary Employment Agenci...
Temporary employment has become a major concern in the last decades: it is seen as the result of the...
This work performed a comparative analysis of the labour markets and its relationship with the socia...
This paper studies the effects of fixed-term contracts on workers. Specifically, the paper analyzes ...
This article studies the labor market effects of flxed-term employment contracts in Spain. First, we...
Great social inequality has been one of the worrisome features of economic development in Latin Amer...
We review some lessons from the Spanish experience of using temporary employment contracts for regul...
Published as an article in: Moneda y Crédito (2004), 219, pp.: 43-68.The main issue of this paper is...
We use the Spanish Labor Force Survey (EPA) for the period 1987-1996 to study trends, characteristi...
The analysis of the informal sector is very relevant in Latin America. More than half of the workers...
The high rhythm of economic growth experienced by Latin America between 2003 and 2008 has had a posi...
Artículo de publicación ISISin acceso a texto completoHistorically, the development literature conce...
América Latina ha experimentado un proceso de mejora significativa en el mercado laboral durante el ...
During the 2000s and early 2010s, Latin America experienced a process of significantimprovement in t...
Since the 2000s an increasing trend in labour formality has been observed in several Latin American ...
In this paper we analyze the current status of the workers hired through Temporary Employment Agenci...
Temporary employment has become a major concern in the last decades: it is seen as the result of the...
This work performed a comparative analysis of the labour markets and its relationship with the socia...
This paper studies the effects of fixed-term contracts on workers. Specifically, the paper analyzes ...
This article studies the labor market effects of flxed-term employment contracts in Spain. First, we...
Great social inequality has been one of the worrisome features of economic development in Latin Amer...
We review some lessons from the Spanish experience of using temporary employment contracts for regul...
Published as an article in: Moneda y Crédito (2004), 219, pp.: 43-68.The main issue of this paper is...
We use the Spanish Labor Force Survey (EPA) for the period 1987-1996 to study trends, characteristi...
The analysis of the informal sector is very relevant in Latin America. More than half of the workers...
The high rhythm of economic growth experienced by Latin America between 2003 and 2008 has had a posi...
Artículo de publicación ISISin acceso a texto completoHistorically, the development literature conce...