Financial Disincentives to Formal Employment and Tax-Benefit Systems in Latin America

Mapping Intimacies ◽

10.18235/0002324 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

María Cecilia Deza ◽

H. Xavier Jara ◽

Nicolás Oliva ◽

Javier Torres

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Formal Employment ◽

Financial Disincentives

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Better pensions, better jobs: status and alternatives toward universal pension coverage in Latin America and the Caribbean

Journal of Pension Economics and Finance ◽

10.1017/s1474747215000190 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 16 (2) ◽

pp. 121-143 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

ANGEL MELGUIZO ◽

MARIANO BOSCH ◽

CARMEN PAGES

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Labor Markets ◽

Productivity Growth ◽

Universal Coverage ◽

Economic Changes ◽

Current State ◽

Formal Employment ◽

The Caribbean ◽

Pension Coverage ◽

Fiscal Space

AbstractThis article offers an overview of the current state of labor markets and pension coverage in a wide sample of Latin America and the Caribbean countries, and proposes a series of possible avenues toward universal coverage, not only as an instrument to fight poverty during old age, but also as part of an agenda for increasing formal employment and productivity growth. We conclude that despite perspectives of low economic growth and reduced fiscal space, the region is going through intense demographic and socio-economic changes, which increase the demand for better jobs and provide a real opportunity for initiating the bold reforms in pensions, labor, and taxes needed to achieve universal coverage.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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