Documents et rapports
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The effects of wage indexation on adjustment, inflation and equity (anglais)
Wage indexation has been an important policy instrument in several developing countries. The alliance of endemic internal imbalances and long-lived labor market institutions has made indexation a normal...
Type de document: Document de travail sur le capital humain Numéro du rapport: 12520 Date du document: 30 novembre 1993 Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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The effects of wage indexation on adjustment, inflation, and equity (anglais)
Wage indexation has been an important policy instrument in several developing countries. The alliance of endemic internal imbalances and long-lived labor market institutions has made indexation a normal...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 31100 Date du document: 1 juillet 1993 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Wage and employment policies in Czechoslovakia (anglais)
Czechoslovakia (CSFR) faces marked challenges for successfully accomplishing its transition to a market economy. In recent years the economy was characterized by a good deal of internal and external equilibrium...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS730 Date du document: 31 juillet 1991 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Chile's labor markets in an era of adjustment (anglais)
In the 1970s, Chile underwent profound structural changes in market regulation, public sector policies, and foreign trade. These changes produced notable economic strain and high open unemployment. After...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS404 Date du document: 30 avril 1990 Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Macroeconomic adjustment and the labor market in four Latin American countries (anglais)
Implicit in standard macroeconomics of adjustment is the assumption of well-integrated labor markets that are responsive to relative prices. But segmentation of the labor market is usually said to be an...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS335 Date du document: 31 décembre 1989 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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The impact of labor costs on manufactured exports in developing countries : an econometric analysis (anglais)
This paper estimates export supply elasticities in 20 countries using an empirical model in which manufactured exports are a function of the price of exports, the price of imported inputs, and labor costs...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS204 Date du document: 31 mai 1989 Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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International differences in wage and nonwage labor costs (anglais)
The ratio of nonwage labor costs (for social security, pensions, vacation days, severence compensation, and the like) to direct wage costs is proportionately higher in Europe and Latin America than in...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS188 Date du document: 30 avril 1989 Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Wage responsiveness and labor market disequilibrium (anglais)
The objectives of this paper are : (i) to empirically probe on the validity of the hypothesis that wages are relatively unresponsive to labor market disequlibrium; and (ii) to investigate whether the dramatically...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS85 Date du document: 30 septembre 1988 Auteur: Lopez,Ramon E.,Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Causal role of minimum wages in six Latin American labor markets (anglais)
Although Minimum Wage (MW) regulations are an old tradition in Latin America, controversy about their effects on inflation, unemployment, wage flexibility and international competitiveness has become central...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD270 Date du document: 30 avril 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paldam,Martin,Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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Minimum wages and average wages, analyzing the causality : the cases of Argentina, Brazil and Chile (anglais)
Minimum wage (MW) policies are an old and controversial tradition in Latin America. This controversy develops principally on the different effects that in standard economic analysis are associated to MW...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD219 Date du document: 1 décembre 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Paldham, Martin,Riveros,Luis Alfredo
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The Chilean labor market : from the structural reforms of the 1970s to the crisis of the 1980s (anglais)
This paper reviews the main features of labor market performance in the Chilean economy during the 1970s. Its purpose is to analyze several explanations for Chile's high unemployment levels, on the basis...
Type de document: Document de travail départemental Numéro du rapport: DRD173 Date du document: 1 avril 1986 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Riveros,Luis Alfredo