Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean

Carmen Pagés, Gaëlle Le Borgne Pierre, Stéfano Scarpetta

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More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low participation rates, high and persistent informality, and, in some cases, open unemployment.
Creating viable and lasting employment is vital to reduce poverty and spread prosperity in the region. The failure to create more-and more productive and rewarding-jobs carries substantial political, social, and economic costs.
'Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges' provides a thorough examination of the labor market trends in the region in recent decades and assesses the role that labor demand and labor supply factors have played in shaping these outcomes.

Sujets

• Creative destruction
• Structural change
• Latin America
• Job creation program

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• Publié par: world-bank-publications
• Publié le: 19 juin 2009
• Nombre de lectures: 18
• EAN13: 9780821380253
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 5 Mo

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Job Creation
in Latin America
and the Caribbean
RECENT TRENDS AND
POLICY CHALLENGES
Authors:
Carmen Pagés
Gaëlle Pierre
Stefano Scarpetta Job Creation in Latin America
and the CaribbeanJob Creation in
Latin America and
the Caribbean
RECENT TRENDS AND
POLICY CHALLENGES
Carmen Pagés, Gaëlle Pierre,
and Stefano Scarpetta
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Pagés, Carmen.
Job creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: recent trends and policy challenges / Carmen Pagés, Gaëlle
Pierre, and Stefano Scarpetta.
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America. 4. Unemployment—Caribbean Area. 5. Latin America—Economic policy. 6. Caribbean Area—
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