Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries

Nancy Chau, Ravi Kanbur and Vidhya Soundararajan ()
Additional contact information
Vidhya Soundararajan: Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay

No 15514, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: The issue of employer power is underemphasized in the development literature. The default model is usually one of competitive labor markets. This assumption matters for analysis and policy prescription. There is growing evidence that the competitive labor markets assump- tion is not valid for developing countries. Our objective in this paper is to review this evidence, to present theoretical and policy perspectives which follow from it, and to highlight areas for further research.

Keywords: employer power; employment; developing countries (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J42 O15 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 29 pages
Date: 2022-08
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-com and nep-lma
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (3)

Downloads: (external link)
https://docs.iza.org/dp15514.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
Working Paper: Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries (2022)
Working Paper: Employer Power and Employment in Developing Countries (2022)
Working Paper: Employer power and employment in developing countries (2022)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iza:izadps:dp15514

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
IZA, Margard Ody, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA) IZA, P.O. Box 7240, D-53072 Bonn, Germany. Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Holger Hinte ().