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

Rolph van der Hoeven

No wp-2000-209, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: The economic reform policies in the 1980s and the 1990s under the so-called Washington Consensus have recently led to growing concern for inequality. This paper looks at some of the labour market outcomes of the economic reform policies in terms of inequality.

Keywords: Equality and inequality; Income distribution; Labour market (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2000
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