; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases …, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region … examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply …

; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases …, open unemployment. Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region … examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply …

unemployment reduce wellbeing; where the cost of inflation in terms of unemployment, hence the relative size of the weights in a … unemployment than inflation. Thus advocates and practioners of inflation only targeting are, and increasingly so, divorced from the … inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In …

families to specific markets such as housing and labor. The techniques applied include traditional regression analysis … volume makes to the literature on discrimination, it also has the potential to contribute more broadly to labor economics …