Comprises seven case studies taken from a larger project on rural labour markets and employment policies. Examines how rural labour markets function and the complex factors that condition their outcomes.

The paper presented three related issues. A first objective was to shed light on some of the facts of the employment impacts of trade and investments abroad, including highly controversial themes as off-shoring of the production of goods and services. A second objective was to debate the options...

Cubre el período de los años 1990.

In recognition of the economic role of informal sector activities, identifies factors that influence the decision by microenterprises to conform or not to conform to national-level labour and tax obligations.