Ball, Laurence; Roux, Nicolás De; Hofstetter, Marc - UNIVERSIDAD DE LOS ANDES-CEDE - 2011
This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the … determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural … unemployment over time, finding that they are caused by contractions in aggregate demand. These demand contractions result from …