Los problemas de desempleo e ingresos bajos de un sector de la fuerza laboral empleada ha sido de gran interés, tanto en países desarrollados como en vías de desarrollo. Se usan comúnmente tres hipótesis para explicar el desempleo en países en vías de desarrollo; la de crecimiento...

The inhability of the agricultural sector to maintain the relative income level of the population devoted to the sector has been called the “farm problem” in the literature. The analytical wok on the farm problem” has been concentrated on the U.S. case. However, there is clear evidence...

It is shown that long-held views on the links between minimum wages and human capital arising from on-the-job training are not in general valid in a general equilibrium context. Of the three propositions obtained from partial equilibrium models, namely that minimum wages cause (i) firms to...