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Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. The Collapse of Organized Labor in the United States -- 2. Government Is Not the Answer: Why Public-Sector Unionism Won't Rescue the Labor Movement -- 3. Wages and Inequality -- 4. Strikes -- 5. The Timing Was Terrible: Deunionization and Racial Inequality...

Since the mid-1990s, Brazil has undergone extensive reforms that have finally reversed the dismaying economic performance of the 1980s. In particular, poverty and inequality indicators have improved dramatically, especially since the late-2000s. This paper provides an overview of such recent...

Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...