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Perspectives on labour economics for development /

In developing countries, labour markets play a central role indetermining economic and social progress since employmentstatus is a key determinant to exiting poverty and promotinginclusion. While governments are increasingly prioritizingpolicies which promote decent work, a better understandingis ne...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cazes, Sandrine
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Geneva : International Labour Office, 2013.
Colección:Verick, Sher.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; List of tables; List of figures; List of boxes; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1 Introduction and overview; 1.1 Chapter summaries; Bibliography; 2 The labour market in developing countries*; Box 2.1 A "developing country"? An "emerging economy"?; 2.1 The employment consequences of abundant labour and scarce capital; Table 2.1 "Dual economy": A "traditional" and a "modern" economy; Figure 2.1 Shares of regions in world output noting the growth of developing Asia, 1973and 1998 (percentages). 
505 8 |a Figure 2.2 Population growth, 2000-10 (percentages)Figure 2.3 Share of US1.25 per day working poor (percentages); 2.2 The persistence of informality; 2.3 Agriculture and the rural economy; 2.3.1 The weather, international commodity prices and growth; 2.3.2 Staying rural but moving off the farm; 2.3.3 Multiple job-holding; 2.4 Labour market structure and status inemployment; 2.4.1 Non-market work: Work outside the scope of market transactions; 2.4.2 The labour force participation of women and the level ofeconomic development. 
505 8 |a Figure 2.4 Share of contributing family members in total employment of youths aged15-24 (percentages)2.4.3 Status in employment; Table 2.2 Definitions of status in employment; Figure 2.5 Share of employees in total employment and level of development, 2000-08(percentages); 2.4.4 Productivity variance within -- ostensibly -- the same productmarkets; 2.5 Structural transformation or the evolution ofeconomic structure; 2.5.1 A brief word on trade and employment changes; 2.5.2 Concerns over the course of structural transformation. 
505 8 |a Figure 2.6 Relation between change in shares of agriculture in employment andvulnerability, 2009Figure 2.7 Economic weight of the services sector and economic development; 2.6 Human capital and investment capital; 2.6.1 Education and structural transformation; Figure 2.8 Relation between educational attainment and share of agriculture in theeconomy (percentages); 2.7 Weak market integration; 2.7.1 Infrastructure; 2.8 Conclusion; Bibliography; 3 Growth, distribution, employment and poverty; 3.1 Introduction. 
505 8 |a 3.2 Growth, employment, inequality and poverty reduction: Theoretical insights and conceptual issuesBox 3.1 How to measure inequality; Figure 3.1 The poverty-growth-inequality triangle; Figure 3.2 Virtuous circle of links among growth, employment and poverty reduction; 3.3 What do country experiences teach us?; Table 3.1 Relationship between GDP, employment, productivity growth and povertyreduction, 1980-2008; Box 3.2 Output-employment elasticities; 3.4 Supporting the growth-employment-poverty linkthrough economic and social policies; Box 3.3 The importance of credit; 3.5 Conclusion. 
520 |a In developing countries, labour markets play a central role indetermining economic and social progress since employmentstatus is a key determinant to exiting poverty and promotinginclusion. While governments are increasingly prioritizingpolicies which promote decent work, a better understandingis needed of the often complex relationship between labourmarkets and development. 
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