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Labor and Migration

Overview

blue arrow Pending Issues in Protection, Productivity Growth, and Poverty Reduction, LAC Labor Team, Executive Summary of Labor Stocktaking in the Latin American and Caribbean Region, World Bank Research Working Paper 3799, (2005) PDF

Labor Market Dynamics and the Business Cycle

blue arrow The Determinants of Rising Informality in Brazil: Evidence from Gross Worker Flows  Mariano Bosch, Edwin Goni, William Maloney (2006) PDF

blue arrow Informal Labor Markets and Macroeconomic Fluctuations  Norbert Fiess, Marco Fugazza, William Maloney (2006) PDF

blue arrow   Gross Worker Flows in the Presence of Informal Labor Markets. The Mexican Experience 1987-2002 M. Bosch and W. Maloney, (2006) PDF

blue arrow  Labor Market Dynamics in Developing Countries: Comparative Analysis using Continuous Time Markov Processes M. Bosch and W. Maloney, (2005) PDF

blue arrow Does Informality Imply Segementation in Urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions in Mexico World Bank Economic Review 13, 275-302, W. Maloney, (1999) PDF

blue arrow  Self-Employment and Labor Turnover in Development Countries: Cross-Country Evidence in World Bank Economist's Forum, W. Maloney (1998) PDF

Labor Market Protections

blue arrow Social Security Reforms in Latin America (background papers)

blue arrow Social Security Coverage in Chile, 1990-2001, by S. Valdes-Prieto

Labor Market Risk and Welfare

blue arrow  Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare T. Krebs, P. Krishna and W. Maloney, (2005) PDF

blue arrow  The Distribution of Income Shocks during Crises: An Application of Quantile Analysis to Mexico, 1992-95 W. Cunningham, M. Bosch and W. Maloney, The World Economic Review, Vol. 18, N. 2 (2004) PDF

Labor Mobility

blue arrow Income Dynamics, Mobility and Welfare in Developing Countries
Tom Krebs, Pravin Krishna, and William Maloney (2006)

Minimum Wages and Labor Market Regulation

blue arrow Minimum Wages in Latin America and the Caribbean: the Impact on Employment, Inequality, and Poverty
W. Cunningham, et.al., The World Bank (2006) PDF

blue arrow Measuring the Impact of Minimum Wages. Evidence from Latin America W. Maloney and J. Nuñez, in Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean. eds. J. Heckman and C. Pagés. U Chicago, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc (2003) PDF

blue arrow Efficiency Wage and Union Effects in Labor Demand and Wage Structure in Mexico: An Application of Quantile Analysis W. Maloney and E. Pontual, Policy Research Working Paper Series 2131, (1999) PDF

Informality and Microfirm Dynamics

blue arrow  Cyclical Movements in Unemployment and Informality in Developing Countries (with Mariano Bosch), (2008) PDF

blue arrow Releasing Constraints to Growth or Pushing on a String? The Impact of Credit, Training, Business Associations and Taxes on the Performance of Mexican Micro-Firms W. Maloney, P. Fajnzylber and G. Montes Rojas, (2006) PDF

blue arrow Micro-Firm Dynamics in Less Developed Countries: How Similar are they to those in the Industrialized World? Evidence from Mexico W. Maloney, P. Fajnzylber and G. Montes Rojas, forthcoming, World Bank Economic Review (2006) PDF

blue arrow  Labor Market Dynamics in Developing Countries: Comparative Analysis using Continuous Time Markov Processes M. Bosch and W. Maloney, (2005) PDF

blue arrow  Informality Revisited World Development, (2004) PDF

blue arrow  "Heterogeneity among Mexico's Micro-Enterprises: An Application of Factor and Cluster Analysis" W. Maloney and W. Cunningham, Economic Development and Cultural Change 50, 131-156, (2001) PDF

blue arrow Does Informality Imply Segementation in Urban Labor Markets? Evidence from Sectoral Transitions in Mexico World Bank Economic Review 13, 275-302, W. Maloney (1999) PDF


blue arrow  Quitting and Labor Turnover: Macroeconomic Evidence and Macroeconomic Consequences  W. Maloney and T. Krebs, (1998) PDF

blue arrow  Self-Employment and Labor Turnover in Development Countries: Cross-Country Evidence in World Bank Economist's Forum, W. Maloney, (1998) PDF

blue arrow Micro-enterprises and employment generation

Labor Markets and Trade

blue arrow Migration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico
P. Aroca Gonzalez and W. Maloney, (2005) PDF

blue arrow  Labor Demand and Trade Reform in Latin America W. Maloney and P. Fajnzylber, Journal of International Economics 66, pp. 423-446 (2005) PDF

blue arrow  Trade Policy, Income Risk, and Welfare T. Krebs, P. Krishna and W. Maloney, (2005) PDF

blue arrow Trade Liberalization and Labor Reform in Latin America and the Caribbean in the 1990s W. Maloney, I. Gill and C. Sanchez-Paramo, En Breve 2002

blue arrow  Firm Entry and Exit, Labor Demand, and Trade Reform. Evidence from Chile and Colombia W. Maloney, P. Fajnzylber, and E. Riveiro, Policy Research Working Paper 2659, (2001) PDF

blue arrow How Comparable are Labor Demand Elasticities across Countries?
W. Maloney and P. Fajnzylber, Policy Research Working Paper 2658, 2001

blue arrow Labor Market "Rigidity" and the Success of Economic Reforms Across More than One Hundred Countries, by A. Fortaleza and M. Rama

blue arrow Did NAFTA Increase Labor Market Integration between the United States and Mexico?, by R. Robertson

blue arrow Sources of Regional (non) Convergence in Mexico, by G. Esquivel and M. Messmacher

Migration

blue arrow   Close to Home: The Development Impact of Remittances in Latin America P. Fajnzylber and J. Humberto Lopez, The World Bank 2006

blue arrow  Migration, Trade, and Foreign Direct Investment in Mexico P. Aroca Gonzalez and W. Maloney, The World Bank Economic Review, Vol. 19, No. 3, pp. 449-472 (2005) PDF

blue arrow Migration and Human Capital in Brazil N. Fiess and D. Verner World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3093, (2003)



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