Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic |
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American analysis apparatus argues chapter cities commodity chains context Costa Rica countries deregulation Dominican Republic effects elites employers factory formal and informal formal economy formal employment formal sector formal workers gender growth higher important income industrialization informal activities informal economy informal firms informal microenterprises informal sector informal workers informal workshops institutional interaction variables interviews Itzigsohn labor absorption labor force labor laws labor market regulations labor market segmentation labor regulations Latin America linkages loans maquilas ment minimum salary Moreover multinomial logit neoliberal neopatrimonial NGOs occupational categories organization percent Perez Sainz peripheral policies political population Portes Portes's poverty production programs promoting protective public sector regulatory regimes result Rican role San Jose Santo Domingo self-employed shows similar social capital social citizenship social security structural adjustment subsistence survey Table Tardanico tion Tokman trends variables wage women World Bank world economy world system
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