Employment in Crises: The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America - Couverture souple

Silva, Joana; Sousa, Liliana; Packard, Truman; Robertson, Raymond

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1464816727 ISBN 13 : 9781464816727

Editeur : World Bank Publications, 2021

Synopsis

A region known for its volatility, Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has suffered severe economic and social setbacks from crises--including the COVID-19 pandemic. These crises have taken their toll on careers, wage growth, and productivity. Employment in Crisis: The Path to Better Jobs in a Post-COVID-19 Latin America provides new evidence on the effects of crises on the region's workers and firms and suggests several policy responses that can bolster long-term and inclusive economic growth. This report has three key findings. First, crises lead to persistent employment losses and accelerate structural changes away from the formal sector. This change occurs more through reductions in the creation of formal jobs than through job destruction. Second, some workers recover from crises, while others are permanently scarred by them. Low-skilled workers can suffer up to a decade of lower earnings caused by crises, while high-skilled workers rebound fast, exacerbating the LAC region's high level of inequality. Formal workers suffer smaller employment and wage losses in localities with higher rates of informality. And the reduced job flows caused by crises decrease welfare, but workers in localities with more job opportunities, whether formal or informal, bounce back better. Third, crises' cleansing effects can increase efficiency and productivity, but these effects are dampened by the LAC region's less competitive market structure. Rather than becoming more agile and productive during economic downturns, protected sectors and firms gain market share and crowd out others, trapping valuable resources. This report proposes a three-pronged mix of policies to improve the LAC region's responses to crises: -Create a more stable macroeconomic environment to smooth the impacts of crises, including automatic stabilizers such as unemployment insurance and short-term compensation programs; -Increase the capacity of social protection and labor programs to respond to crises and coalesce these programs into systems that complement income support with reemployment assistance and reskilling opportunities; and -Tackle structural issues, including the lack of product market competition and the spatial dimension behind poor labor market adjustment--a "good jobs and good firms" agenda.

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À propos de l'auteur

The World Bank came into formal existence in 1945 following the international ratification of the Bretton Woods agreements. It is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. The organization's activities are focused on education, health, agriculture and rural development, environmental protection, establishing and enforcing regulations, infrastructure development, governance and legal institutions development. The World Bank is made up of two unique development institutions owned by its 185 Member Countries. The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (IBRD) focuses on middle income and creditworthy poor countries and the International Development Association (IDA), which focuses on the poorest countries in the world.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Bank Publications
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1464816727
• ISBN 13: 9781464816727
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 136
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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