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Institutional change and labor policy in the government of the General Eleazar Lopez Contreras (1936-1941)

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  • Virginia Rondón de Medina

    (Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales de la Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela, Avenida Las Américas, Núcleo La Liria, Código postal 5101.)

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The paper examines the labor policy followed by the government of Eleazar Lopez Contreras (1936-1941) for the purpose to precise that there was a socio-economic change, resulting from the formation of a new institutional framework that allowed meet the Workers demands. For first time was given a confluence of formal constraints, informal constraints and coercion mechanisms that looked for the welfare of working men, as in the previous government (1908-1935), although efforts were made to develop limitations, all formalistic, the coercion mechanisms required for compliance with the limitations are obviated. The analysis is from the point of view of Douglas North’s neo institutionalism.

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  • Virginia Rondón de Medina, 2015. "Institutional change and labor policy in the government of the General Eleazar Lopez Contreras (1936-1941)," Economía, Instituto de Investigaciones Económicas y Sociales (IIES). Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Sociales. Universidad de Los Andes. Mérida, Venezuela, vol. 40(39), pages 119-152, January-J.
    • Handle: RePEc:ula:econom:v:40:y:2015:i:39:p:119-152
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    Keywords

    Labor policy; institutional framework; López Contreras.;
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    JEL classification:

    • J08 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - General - - - Labor Economics Policies
    • J80 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Labor Standards - - - General
    • N36 - Economic History - - Labor and Consumers, Demography, Education, Health, Welfare, Income, Wealth, Religion, and Philanthropy - - - Latin America; Caribbean

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