Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0226322823 ISBN 13 : 9780226322827

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2004

Synopsis

Analyzing the effects of regulation and deregulation on Latin American labor markets, Law and Employment joins the ongoing debate about the virtues and costs of legislating mandatory benefits for workers. Of the numerous labor regulations that were altered or created in Latin America during the last thirty years, many have had unintended and far-reaching results. Nobel Prize-winning economist James J. Heckman, and Carmen Pages document the behavior of firms attempting to stay in business and be competitive while facing the high costs of complying with these labor laws. They challenge the prevailing view that labor market regulations affect only the distribution of labor incomes and have little or no impact on efficiency or the performance of labor markets. This volume shows that mandated benefits reduce employment, have a disruptive impact on turnover rates and labor market flexibility, promote inequality, and discriminate against marginal workers. Along with in-depth studies of Colombia, Peru, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, Law and Employment provides comparative analysis from a range of European countries and the United States, while also covering important changes in reg

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

James J. Heckman is the Henry Schultz Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of Economics at the University of Chicago and the recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Economics. He is the director of the Economics Research Center at the University of Chicago and codirector of the Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Global Working Group. Heckman has authored an edited several books, most recently Giving Kids a Fair Chance and The Myth of Achievement Tests (edited with John Eric Humphries and Tim Kautz).

Carmen Pagés is a senior research economist in the research department of the Inter-American Development Bank.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0226322823
• ISBN 13: 9780226322827
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 475
• Éditeur: Heckman James J., Pages Carmen
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