Building on long-term benefits of early intervention (Paper 2 of this Series) and increasing
commitment to early childhood development (Paper 1 of this Series), scaled up support for …

This chapter reviews what economists have learned about the impact of labor market
institutions, defined broadly as government regulations and union activity on labor outcomes …

The paper draws on recent evidence––economic, sociological and anthropological––from
Latin America to forward a view of the informal sector in developing countries primarily as an …

Minimum wages exist in more than one hundred countries, both industrialized and
developing. The United States passed a federal minimum wage law in 1938 and has …

Most labor economics textbooks pay little attention to actual labor markets, taking as
reference a perfectly competitive market in which losing a job is not a big deal. The …

We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages–in the
United States and in other countries–that was spurred by the new minimum wage research …

Latin America and the Caribbean has been one of the regions of the world with the greatest
inequality. This book explores why the region suffers from such persistent inequality …

Long regarded as a region beset by macroeconomic instability, high inflation, and excessive
poverty and inequality, Latin America has undergone a major transformation over the last 20 …

We use rich firm-level data and national input–output tables from 17 countries over the 2002–
2005 period to test new and existing hypotheses about the impact of foreign direct …

A quantitative model brings together theories linking international trade to quality,
technology, and demand for skills. Standard effects of trade on importers and exporters are …