Este volumen reune aportes de especialistas de temas laborales. Es parte de una serie de publicaciones que anualmente prepara el Departamento de Economía de la PUCP.

The series of employment and unemployment are fundamental pieces for the analysis of the effects of the economic policy on the well being of households. The divergence between which the public perceives like a problem of lack of employment and what the government affirms, that the problem is...

The aim of this paper is to determine the influence of personal characteristics and previous labor story on the probability of being unemployed. So we estimate a PROBIT regression for years 1989, 1991 and 1996, using data from the Employment Level Surveys for Lima Metropolitana. We find, first,...

The labor reform which began in Peru in 1991 has generated a new labor context. The aim of this article is to analyze the effect of the change in labor legislation on the labor market adjustment process of Lima Metropolitana. By means of the analysis of unemployment structure and of the time...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the behavior in the labor market of the family from Lima Metropolitana, in a context of crisis and labor reform. Using the theory of family labor supply, participation in the labor force of women and men is analyzed in base of individual and family variables....