Employment-Poverty Linkages and Policies: The Case of Bolivia

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This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average productivity of the employed work force, which in turn gets reflected in low levels of real wages and low levels of earnings in self-employment. At the micro level of a household, the same linkage between poverty and employment operates through the type and productivity of economic activities in which the earning members of a household are engaged, the low level of human capital of the members of the workforce, the dependency burden that limits participation in the workforce, and the availability of remunerative employment.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Development Research Working Paper Series ; No. 05/2003

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Human Capital; Skills; Occupational Choice; Labor Productivity ; Economywide Country Studies: Latin America; Caribbean ; Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
• Subject: Employment ; Poverty ; Growth ; Bolivia

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Jemio, Luis Carlos ; del Carmen Choque, Maria
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Institute for Advanced Development Studies (INESAD)
• (where): La Paz
• (when): 2003

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/189505
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