Papers and Reports: Labor Market Reform in Mexico and Latin America

 

-Mexico

  1. “Mexico- Enhancing Factor Productivity Growth: Country Economic Memorandum,” August 1998, World Bank Report No. 17392-ME .

 

  1. “Mexico – Country Economic Memorandum: Challenges and Prospects for Tax Reform,” July 2002, World Bank Report No. 22527-ME .

 

  1. Calderón-Madrid, Angel, “Job Stability and Labor Mobility in Urban Mexico: A Study Based on Duration Models And Transition Analysis,” November 2000, IADB Research Network Working paper #R-419.

 

-Latin America

 

  1. Behrman, Jere R., Nancy Birdsall, and Miguel Szekely, “Economic Reform and Wage Differentials in Latin America,” October 2000, IADB   Working Paper #435 .

 

  1. Calvo, Guillermo A., Alejandro Izquierdo, and Ernesto Talvi, “Sudden Stops, the Real Exchange Rate and Fiscal Sustainability: Argentina’s Lessons,” March 2002, IADB Background Paper for the seminar “The Resurgence of Macro Crises: Causes and Implications for Latin America”

 

  1. Edwards, Alejandra Cox, Estelle James, and Rebecca Wong, “ The Gender Impact of Labor Reforms ,” June 2003, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 3074.

 

  1. Freije, Samuel, “ Informal Employment in Latin America and the Caribbean: Causes, Consequences and Policy Recommendations,” IADB Labor Markets Policy Brief .

 

  1. Loayza, Norman A. “The Economics of the Informal Sector: A Simple Model and Some Empirical Evidence from Latin America,” February 1997, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 1727.

 

  1. Montenegro, Claudio E., and Carmen Pagés, “Who Benefits from Labor Market Regulations?: Chile 1960-1998,” August 2003, NBER Working Paper No. 9850 .