En este artículo se analiza el impacto de la apertura comercial sobre el empleo informal en el sector manufacturero costarricense durante el período 1996-2009. Aunque la apertura afecta de manera distinta a las empresas que solamente producen bienes para el mercado interno y las que se...

Greece’s labour market entered the COVID-19 shock following several years of sustained employment growth and with wages picking up. Unemployment remained high and employment rates were low, especially among women, the young and older workers. The shock led to a sharp fall in labour force...

The labor market for musical actors is very challenging for several reasons. On the one hand, it is difficult to acquire a position: qualification requirements are high, competition is fierce and reputation is difficult to build up. On the other hand, once in it is often necessary to get out:...

This article is a result from a broader study on the patterns of concentration and evolution of the process of industrial localization and the labor market in the Great MetropolitanArea of Costa Rica (GAM). This study is part of the research program on regionaleconomics that the Institute of...

In this paper we study year-to-year intra-generational income mobility in Costa Rica. To do so we use a panel data set constructed from the Household Surveys for Multiple Purposes(2001-2007) that allows us to follow the same households and persons from year-to-year.We find that there is...

El artículo que aquí presentamos es resultado del estudio de caso de la economía local de Pérez Zeledón y forma parte de la investigación que en economía regional hemos venido realizando en el Instituto de Investigaciones en Ciencias Económicas (IICE) desde el año 2005. En este estudio...

El presente documento corresponde al informe de la Encuesta sobre producción, perfil del recurso humano y necesidades de capacitación de la mano de obra en la Región Chorotega. Esta encuesta forma parte del proyecto de investigación Competitividad territorial y mercado de trabajo en la...

El presente documento corresponde al informe de la Encuesta sobre Requerimientos de Formación del Recurso Humano para el Sector Industrial y Servicios Ubicados en el Gran Puntarenas, la cual forma parte del proyecto de investigación Análisis y Plan de Acción para el Desarrollo Endógeno del...

This article aims to estimate which characteristics of workers have incidence on theprobability of informal employment, using a model for binary dependent variables.It analyzes labor market dynamics through Quarterly Labor Surveys. It was determinedthatinformal employment has a growing trend in...