This document constructs a multidimentional measure of poverty for Bolivia based on the new 2008 constitution's fundamental rights, which can be measured in surveys; it also documents the changes in poverty observed in the last decade, in a multidimensional approach. Particulary, we extend the...

This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia's labor market institutions, particularly the Plan Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important problem in Bolivia's labor market, as the non-salaried...

This paper uses a simple model of the labor supply to identify the distribution of the reserve wages. The distribution of the reserve wages of the non-employed population (Unemployed or out of the labor force) it's fundamental not only to understand the nature of the no-employment but to also...

This paper presents the evolution of the employment and labor income structure observed in Bolivia during the period 1999-2009. For this we use the harmonized series of the Household Surveys-what explains why our results are sometimes contradictories with those of other investigations that also...

This paper attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of Bolivia’s labor market institutions, particularly the Plan Nacional de Empleo de Emergencia (PLANE). It is found that unemployment as conventionally defined may not be the most important problem in Bolivia’s labor market, as the...