Labour Market Institutions and Income Inequality: What are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus?

Inequality Growth and Poverty in an Era of Liberalization and Globalization

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages

  Van der Hoeven, Rolph ^a   Saget, Catherine ^b  

^a Technical Secretariat of the World Commission on Globalization   (Switzerland)

^b EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Allocative efficiency; Dynamic efficiency; Economic policy; Economic reform; Employment; Employment protection; Equity; Income inequality; Inequality; Informalization of employment; Labour force; Labour force quality; Labour market; Labour market institutions; Labour market policy; Labour market regulation; Minimum wage; National income; Reform policies; Social justice; Supply and demand; Union bargaining power; Wage shares; Washington consensus

Indexed keywords

EID: 34447634393     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1093/0199271410.003.0008     Document Type: Chapter

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