ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper on the basic needs approach to rural development, industrial policy and employment policy in Latin America - reviews agrarian structure, agricultural technology, alternative industrialization policies, labour market, labour supply, unemployment,...

ILO pub-WEP pub-PREALC pub. Working paper outlining an econometric model based on a national accounting matrix to provide simulations of basic needs economic policies in Latin America - describes the structure of the model covering production factors, employment, value added, income...

The paper uses panel data for up to ten Latin America countries for the period 1990-2000 to analyse whether informal employment functions as a cyclic buffer for formal employment as well as whether women's employment functions as a cyclic buffer for men's employment. The paper also evaluates...

Examines how a minimum wage policy may be used as a tool to promote gender pay equity. Includes case studies of Argentina, Colombia and Mexico.

One of a series of reports examining issues related to equality for women in employment. Provides an overview of the treatment of women in social security programmes in Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub- Saharan Africa. Calls attention to four separate aspects of gender bias. Also traces the...

Reviews the impact of recession and structural adjustment in developing countries and the impact of recession in OECD countries, on women workers' employment between 1980 and 1993.