Complementarities and continuities in the political economy of labour markets in Latin America

Schneider, Ben Ross; Karcher, Sebastian

doi:10.1093/ser/mwq022

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“…(a) Includes the following countries: 6 LMEs, 10 CMEs, 10 Balkan economies and 18 Latin American economies. Countries considered as CME and LME were included as reference points, following a classification made by Schneider & Karcher (2010). We used 54 countries for 2007 and 2013.…”

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The Balkans as a Hierarchical Market Economy

Acosta¹,

Aguilar²,

Pedroza³

2019

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The Balkan capitalism has been classified as: Coordinated, Liberal, Mediterranean and as a version of the region itself. Nevertheless, such classifications do not consider the hierarchical economy levels of the region, which for developing countries is a very important feature. Schneider classified the Latin American economies as hierarchical and points out such classification could be applied to middle-income economies of other regions of the world. The aim of the paper is to show that Balkan economies can be considered as hierarchical. To do that, we estimate a Hierarchical Economy index to both regions (Balkans and Latin America). Besides, we test the relationship between inequality and the hierarchical levels (suggested by Schneider). Results show Balkan economies can be classified as hierarchical, because their hierarchical economy indexes are similar to those presented by Latin American economies and there is a negative relationship between inequality and the hierarchical levels among middle-income countries.

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The Balkans as a Hierarchical Market Economy

Acosta¹,

Aguilar²,

Pedroza³

2019

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“…Moreover, the application of labour laws and convenções coletivas is historically widely neglected in Brazil (Noronha, 2000;Oliveira, 2003). However, we cannot disregard the fact that some Brazilian unions have tried to foster workers' rights through political bargaining and lobbying, especially towards the union-friendly ruling parties, such as the PT (Schneider and Karcher, 2010).…”

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“…5 "Low skill trap" happens when workers do not invest individually in acquiring skills because there is a low demand for high-skill and high-wage jobs; in turn, the firms are incentivized to invest in production processes that do not require skilled workers, because they are a scarce resource (Schneider and Karcher, 2010). In a low-skill trap condition, the labor market is characterized by low wages and low qualifications.…”

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Introducing Workers’ Embedded Agency: Insights from the Brazilian Subsidiaries of a Multinational Corporation

Frangi¹

2014

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Summary The relevance of subsidiary embeddedness in a macro-institutional environment can in no way overshadow the importance of the micro-political agency of social actors. While some researchers focus on local management’s “embedded agency,” we focus on a less-developed aspect: workers’ “embedded agency.” In order to do so, we propose an analytical model that is based on the Varieties of Capitalism model and its subsequent developments, but that also includes the workers as an active agent. This model allows us to observe the institutional resources that workers can actively mobilize. We specifically focus on the characteristics of industrial relations and education institutional sub-systems. We apply the developed analytical model to the case of the Brazilian subsidiaries of a highly global multinational corporation (MNC). Brazil represents a context where institutional constraints (i.e. corporatist industrial relations and a dualist education system) make workers’ actions the least favorable. Moreover, the highly integrated organizational environment of the MNC further reinforces this aspect. In turn, this makes it more compelling to discover how workers can nevertheless strategically activate some resources to improve their conditions. We conduct a case study and collect empirical data through semi-structured interviews and documentary analysis. More specifically, we discuss three examples of workers’ “embedded agency” (i.e. election of a bilateral committee for the prevention of accidents; plant closure; and internship and training). These bring analytical attention to workers’ collective and individual actions as well as intra- and extra-subsidiary mobilization of institutional resources.

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“…95 y 96). La mediana de permanencia en el empleo, que excluye los valores extremos para evitar distorsiones, era de tres años en la región, cifra considerablemente inferior a la de cinco años calculada en las economías liberales de mercado de los países industriales avanzados anglosajones (Schneider y Karcher, 2007). A pesar de que la estabilidad del empleo gozaba de garantías jurídicas considerables, las tasas de rotación de los trabajadores latinoamericanos eran altas, semejantes a las de los países desarrollados (BID, 2004, págs.…”

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La experiencia neoliberal de América Latina. Políticas sociales y laborales desde el decenio de 1980

Fraile¹

2009

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Resumen. En la presente síntesis analítica de los seis estudios nacionales de este número se sostiene que las políticas sociolaborales inspiradas en el Consenso de Washington — que se difundieron por América Latina durante los decenios de 1980 y 1990 — no dieron casi nunca los frutos previstos. La flexibilización laboral, la descentralización de la negociación colectiva, la privatización de las pensiones y el peso creciente del mercado en la provisión de bienestar social causaron, a menudo, un aumento de la informalidad y las desigualdades y una reducción de la protección social, sin que consiguieran estimular el empleo. Ahora bien, una vez aprendida la lección, las políticas mencionadas parecen estar dejando paso a unas estrategias más equilibradas.

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Complementarities and continuities in the political economy of labour markets in Latin America

Cited by 71 publications

References 46 publications

The Balkans as a Hierarchical Market Economy

The Balkans as a Hierarchical Market Economy

Introducing Workers’ Embedded Agency: Insights from the Brazilian Subsidiaries of a Multinational Corporation

La experiencia neoliberal de América Latina. Políticas sociales y laborales desde el decenio de 1980

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