El presente trabajo pretende resumir los aspectos positivos de la relación comercial y de inversión de China en América Latina y evaluar si la región podría contar con ésta, de una manera relativamente estable. Con ese fin se hará una evaluación de la evolución reciente de la economía...

To analyse the role of partisan beliefs and interests, this paper focuses on two industries—telecoms and electricity—which have been subject to strong pressures for policy diffusion and thereby are unlikely candidates for showing traces of partisanship. In the implementation of...

Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...

Esse artigo constrói um modelo competitivo que relaciona os salários relativos e a alocação de trabalhadores com diferentes níveis de educação à demanda e à oferta de competências, fornecendo evidências empíricas para o caso do Brasil. O modelo assume que todos os trabalhadores...

Surveys practical experiences in labour relations. Lists the internet addresses of labour ministries, regional institutions, trade unions, and employers' organizations.

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...

Examina los efectos de las políticas de tinte neoliberal y las reformas financieras sobre la generación del mejor empleo, esto es, empleo decente, y el desarrollo productivo y su impacto en la reducción de las desigualdades en los mercados y en las sociedades.