Arepas are not Tacos: On the Labor Markets of Latin America
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Keywords
Latin America; Labor markets; Informality; Unemployment; Transitions;All these keywords.
JEL classification:
- E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
- E26 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Informal Economy; Underground Economy
- J46 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Particular Labor Markets - - - Informal Labor Market
- O54 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economywide Country Studies - - - Latin America; Caribbean
NEP fields
This paper has been announced in the following NEP Reports:- NEP-DEV-2024-10-28 (Development)
- NEP-IUE-2024-10-28 (Informal and Underground Economics)
- NEP-LMA-2024-10-28 (Labor Markets - Supply, Demand, and Wages)
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