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Contenido: 1. Labor reform in Latin America during the 1990s / Dorte Domeland and Indermit S. Gill -- Pt. 1: Public and private sector labor markets in Brazil -- 2. Improving public sector efficiency in Brazil / Ricardo Paes de Barros, Miguel N. Foguel, Indermit S. Gill, and Rosane Silva Pinto de Mendoȧ -- 3. Assessing the impact of regulations on informal workers in Brazil / Edward J. Amadeo, Indermit S. Gill, and Marcelo C. Neri -- Pt. 2: Labor supply and labor demand in Argentina -- 4. Understanding labor supply dynamics in Argentina / Carola Pessino, Indermit S. Gill, and José Luis Guasch -- 5. Increasing labor demand in Argentina / Carola Pessino, Indermit S. Gill, and José Luis Guasch -- Pt. 3: Earning and employment outcomes in Chile -- 6. Responding to earnings differentials in Chile / Indermit S. Gill and Claudio E. Montenegro -- 7. Dealing with employment instability in Chile / Indermit S. Gill, Erik Haindl, Claudio E. Montenegro, and Claudio N. Sapelli -- 8. Some guidelines for the new decade: summary and conclusions / Indermit S. Gill and Claudio E. Montenegro -- Technical annexes: 1. Technical annex to chapter 2: the public-private wage gap -- 2. Technical annex to chapter 5: wage and output elasticities of labor demand -- 3. Technical annex to chapter 6: the quantile regression -- 4. Technical annex to chapter 7: haindl's labor flows model.

Nothing impacts the welfare of individuals and households more directly than employment and earnings opportunities. In developing countries, labor market reform is a crucial component for the success of overall economic policy reforms. Despite success in other areas of economic reform over the past ten years, Argentina, Brazil, and Chile continue to face significant labor policy issues. To reduce the rhetoric around the issues - in Argentina, a high level of unemployment exists; in Brazil, the high costs of public employment have created large government deficits and public debt; and in Chile, there is a growing income inequality and uncertainty of employment - the book uses a systematically quantitative approach. The value of the quantitative methods in analysis is that they can provide frameworks to better understand the effects of various policy actions. The results can then be translated into benefits and costs that policy makers can more easily explain to their constituents. The policy recommendations resulting from the issues analyzed in Crafting Labor Policy: Techniques and Lessons from Latin America may be beneficial to other developing countries enacting labor market reforms.