A strategic and integrated labor market approach: Essential to overcome the crisis and to assist structural adjustment

2011 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 186-188
Author(s):  
Sigried Caspar ◽  
Ines Hartwig ◽  
Barbara Moench
2010 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 407-414 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard T. Carson ◽  
Phoebe Koundouri ◽  
Céline Nauges

Author(s):  
Hakan Ulucan

This chapter examines the effects of structural adjustment programs designed under the supervision of IMF and World Bank on labor markets. These leading financial institutions are part of global financial system and they finance countries. In return, the countries satisfy the requirements imposed by IMF and World Bank. The requirements imposed by IMF and World Bank includes devastating measures for labor market, including privatization, deregulation of labor market, and flexibilization. There is convincing evidence that structural adjustment programs slowdown economic growth so hurts employment. Besides, the labor markets started to be constituted by unsafe work places without rules as a result of deregulations and flexibilizations. Most of the workers lost social security and workplace security. Feminization, child labor, increasing work incidents are the main severe results of the policies designed under pressure of IMF and World Bank on labor market.


1996 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 65-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fikret Şenses

Much of the recent debate on the labor market issues of developing countries has revolved around the interaction of the labor market with stabilization and structural adjustment policies, introduced mostly in conjunction with the IMF and the World Bank. In particular, there is a growing body of literature on the interaction between structural adjustment policies and employment performance in these countries.According to the dominant view in this literature, the favorable employment effects of these policies stem basically from the shift of industrial trade strategy from state-led import substitution towards market-based export orientation.


Author(s):  
Mabel Andalón ◽  
Gary Fields
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2011 ◽  
Vol 73 (7) ◽  
pp. 970-977 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marko Vujicic ◽  
Bakhuti Shengelia ◽  
Marco Alfano ◽  
Ha Bui Thu

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