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The Effects of Motherhood on Wages and Labor Force Participation: Evidence from Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador and Peru
Piras, Claudia; Ripani, Laura - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
mothers earn lower wages than women with no children, the results for Latin America do not show a homogeneous impact of …
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Labor Market Regulation and Employment in the Caribbean
Downes, Andrew S.; Mamingi, Nlandu; Antoine, Rose-Marie … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
One of the major economic challenges facing the Caribbean is the generation of employment opportunities to reduce the high levels of unemployment experienced primarily among the young and female segments of the workforce. An analysis of unemployment requires an examination of both the supply and...
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The Public Sector Premium and the Gender Gap in Latin America: Evidence from the 1980s and 1990s
Panizza, Ugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
paper also finds that, on average, Latin American women earn 30 percent less than men with similar skills and that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944513
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Women in the Latin American Labor Market: The Remarkable 1990's
Duryea, Suzanne; Edwards, Alejandra Cox; Ureta, Manuelita - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
In this paper, the authors examine levels and trends of labor market outcomes for women in the 1990's using household … participation rates, the distribution of employment of women across sectors of the economy (formal versus informal), and earnings … countries. All of these findings suggest a fair degree of change in the role of women within households and in the labor market …
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Working Within Confines: Occupational Segregation by Gender in Three Latin American Countries
Deutsch, Ruthanne; Morrison, Andrew; Piras, Claudia; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
educated women, or are all women equally affected? By analyzing each of these questions, this study of gender … material for policy-makers, researchers and activists interested in the advancement of equality between men and women. …
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Managing Labor Issues in Infrastructure Projects
Hoagland-Grey, Hilary; Maggio, Gregory F.; Michaelsen, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
In order to assist project companies in understanding and complying with labor requirements, the PRI ESU has developed the present guideline with three main objectives first, to educate and inform project companies, financiers and other relevant parties about the labor rights conditions that for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010673011
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Labor Markets and Income Support: What Did We Learn from the Crises?
Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the traditional, labor law-based income support mechanisms in the region. These emergency programs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944300
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Rural Poverty in Latin America Title: Pobreza rural en América Latina
Griffin, Keith - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
The fact that most poor people in Latin America live in urban areas had implied that poverty in the region is regarded … as largely an urban phenomenon. However, this document exposes what available data suggest: that rural poverty still is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944545
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Appraising Workfare Programs
Ravallion, Martin - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
Workfare programs aim to reduce poverty by providing low-wage work to those who need it. They are often turned to in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009350542
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Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations
Freije, Samuel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
The expansion of the informal sector in the last decades has been accompanied by a lack of almost every form of social protection and low-productivity/low-wage employment. This report summarizes the characteristics of the informal sector and provides policy recommendations to tackle it. Section...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009367223