Title:
Labour markets, poverty, and development
Author:
Faini, Riccardo.
ISBN:
9780198293538
Publication Information:
New York : Clarendon Press, 1999.
Physical Description:
xxv, 261 p. : ill.
General Note:
Papers presented at a conference on the tenth annivarsary of the death of Luca d'Agliano.
Contents:
Introduction / Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini and Giovanni Zanalda -- I. Growth, Trade Policy and Employment. 1. Growth and Employment in Developing Countries: Where do we Stand? / Enzo Grilli and Giovanni Zanalda. 2. Trade Liberalization, Employment and Wages: A Critical Approach / Edmund V. K. FitzGerald and Giorgio Perosino. 3. Risk and Migration / Francesco Daveri and Riccardo Faini -- II. Industry and Urban Labour. 4. V-goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development / Gustav Ranis and Frances Stewart. 5. Promoting the Strong or Supporting the Weak? Technological Gaps and Segmented Labour Markets in Sub-Sahara African Industry / Giorgio Barba Navaretti. 6. Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling? Evidence from Three African Countries / Simon Appleton, John Hoddinott and Pramila Krishnan [et al.] -- III. Agriculture, Natural Resources and Rural Labour. 7. Labour Allocation under Baochan / Minquan Liu.
8. Nutritional Status, the Capacity for Work, and Poverty Traps / Partha Dasgupta.
Abstract:
Recent years have seen a period of adjustment and structural change for most developing countries. The ongoing consequences of the debt crisis in the 1980s caused widespread concern of a serious deterioration in wage and employment conditions, as well as in poverty and income distribution. Although the outlook for developing countries changed for the better during the 1990s, concerns about the labour market have not subsided. This book takes a detailed look at employment trends in developing countries, bringing together a distinguished group of international academics and practitioners.
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