Evolución reciente del mercado laboral urbano y alternativas de política

Abstract

"This paper has two different parts. The first part describes the changes of labor market outcomes over the last decade. The second part presents an overview of some policy interventions aimed at increasing employment and labor quality. The results from the first part show the dramatic decline of the labor market indicators as a consequence of the crisis and their slow reversion with the economic recovery. As for the recent evolution of the labor market indicators, the results suggest both an upsurge of youth employment and an increasing gap in formalization between skilled and unskilled workers. The policy interventions are based on two principles that, arguably, should orientate labor policy in the short term: i) social policy must be subordinated to labor policy and not viceversa, and ii) political economy restrictions are pervasive, and greatly limit the possibilities of advancing labor market reforms."