Labour markets, poverty, and development /

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Imprint:Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Description:xxv, 261 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/3788608
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Other authors / contributors:Barba Navaretti, Giorgio, 1960-
Faini, Riccardo.
Zanalda, Giovanni.
D'Agliano, Luca.
ISBN:0198293534
Notes:Papers presented at a conference on the tenth annivarsary of the death of Luca d'Agliano.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Giorgio Barba Navaretti, Riccardo Faini, and Giovanni Zanalda: Introduction
  • Part I. Growth, Trade Policy, and Employment
  • 1. Growth and Employment in Developing Countries: Where do We Stand?
  • 2. Trade Liberalization, Employment, and Wages: A Critical Approach
  • 3. Risk and Migration
  • Part II. Industry and Urban Labour
  • 4. V-Goods and the Role of the Urban Informal Sector in Development
  • 5. Promoting the Strong or Supporting the Weak?
  • Technological Gaps and Segmented Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan African Industry
  • 6. Does the Labour Market Explain Lower Female Schooling?
  • Evidence from Three African Countries
  • Part III. Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Rural Labour
  • 7. Labour Allocation under Baochan
  • 8. Nutritional Status, the capacity for Work, and Poverty Traps