Labour Markets and Income Inequality: What Are the New Insights after the Washington Consensus?

R. van der Hoeven

Research Paper from World Institute for Development Economics Research

Abstract: This paper looks at some of the labour market outcomes of the economic reform policies in terms of inequality. The paper argues that labour market policies, regulations and institutions have at least three goals, improving allocative efficiency, improving dynamic efficiency and improving or maintaining a sense of equity and social justice among labour force participants.

Keywords: LABOUR MARKET; ECONOMIC REFORM; EMPLOYMENT (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J64 J7 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2000
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