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Traditional and modern employee benefits in Myanmar’s manufacturing sectorEmployer-provided benefits are independent elements in the compensation packages that make up firms’ payment strategies. Such benefits are aimed at attracting and retaining preferred employees and improving incentives...
compensation packages employee benefits Labour lawBlog
From The Editor's Desk (December 2012)
Tony Addison This year has rushed by at speed. For UNU-WIDER it’s been a year of big successes. We will have published some 110 working papers by the end of December, up from 96 in 2011 (go here for the latest list)...
Accessibility Economic development Climate changeBlog
Learning How to Promote Social Protection from Cambodia’s Garment Workers
Alisa DiCaprio Innovations in social protection systems design have moved forward quickly on the supply-side over the past decade...
Employee rights Human rights Labour lawJournal Article
Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in HondurasPart of Journal Special Issue Globalization, Poverty, and Inequality in Latin America
Globalization Labour law PovertyWorking Paper
Minimum Wages, Globalization, and Poverty in HondurasTo be competitive in the global economy, some argue that Latin American countries need to reduce or eliminate labour market regulations such as minimum wage legislation because they constrain job creation and hence increase poverty...
Globalization Labour law PovertyWorking Paper
Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in KenyaUsing multinomial logit we analyze factors that influence the choice of mechanization technologies in Nyanza Province...
Agriculture Choice Labour lawBook Chapter
Gender Differentiation in the Analysis of Alternative Farm Mechanization Choices on Small Farms in KenyaFrom the book: Food Insecurity, Vulnerability and Human Rights Failure
Agriculture Choice Labour lawBook Chapter
Understanding the Relationship Between Institutions and Economic Development: Some Key Theoretical IssuesFrom the book: Institutional Change and Economic Development
Financial institutions Institutional economics Labour lawWorking Paper
Understanding the Relationship between Institutions and Economic Development: Some Key Theoretical IssuesThe paper tries to improve our understanding on the role of institutions in development by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions and highlighting some of its key problems...
Financial institutions Institutional economics Labour lawJournal Article
La Relación entre las Instituciones y el Desarrollo Económico: Problemas teóricos clavesThis paper discusses how the theory on the role of institutions in development can be improved, by critically examining the current orthodox discourse on institutions...
Financial institutions Institutional economics Labour lawBook Chapter
Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory EnvironmentFrom the book: Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
Informal sector Labour law Organizational behaviorBook Chapter
Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: The Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal TradersFrom the book: Linking the Formal and Informal Economy
Informal sector Labour law Local governmentBook Chapter
Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality Among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican AgendaFrom the book: Informal Labour Markets and Development
Informal sector Labour law Labour productivityWorking Paper
Public Policies to Promote Productive Occupation and Increase Formality Among the Moderately Poor: The Mexican AgendaPublic policy aimed at building capacity among the extremely poor (support for food and nutrition; health; education and, more recently, financial services), combined with a stable macroeconomic environment, has proved to be successful for poverty al...
Informal sector Labour law Labour productivityWorking Paper
Enforcement and Compliance in Lima's Street Markets: the Origins and Consequences of Policy Incoherence Toward Informal TradersAlmost twenty years have passed since researchers from the Institute for Liberty and Democracy in Peru showed how ‘bad laws’ impose disproportionate costs on those who choose formality...
Informal sector Labour law Local governmentWorking Paper
Rethinking the Informal Economy: Linkages with the Formal Economy and the Formal Regulatory EnvironmentThis paper explores the relationship of the informal economy to the formal economy and to the formal regulatory environment...
Informal sector Labour law Organizational behavior