Background Papers - Regional Human Development Report 2021

• Implications of Minimum Wage Policies for Labour Markets with High Informality and Frictions, Luca Flabbi

• Time for a New Course: An Essay on Social Protection and Growth in Latin America, Santiago Levy y Guillermo Cruces

• El sistema de protección social y laboral en México: contribución paradójica a la lucha contra la desigualdad, Alejandra Correa, Maite García de Alba, Alejandra Martínez, Cynthia Martínez y Annabelle Sulmont

• Informal and Small: How Labor Market Institutions Affect Inequality, Income Volatility and Labor Productivity in Brazil, Sergio Firpo y Alysson Portella

• ¿Cuán efectiva es la protección social en Honduras?, Andrés Ham

• Social Protection in Jamaica: Strengths and Limitations of Its Redistributive Mechanisms, Manuel Mera

• Políticas de protección social y laboral en Ecuador, Hugo Ñopo and Alejandra Peña

• Políticas de protección social y laboral en la República Dominicana, Hugo Ñopo y Socrates Barinas

• Políticas de protección social y laboral en el Perú. Una espiral de buenas intenciones, malos resultados y peores respuestas, Hugo Ñopo

• Protección social, formalidad y subsidios cruzados: evidencia para Argentina, María Laura Alzúa y Ana Pacheco

• ¿Cuán eficaz es la Protección Social en Chile?, Camila Olate y Matías Morales

• Mercados laborales fragmentados y el sistema de protección social en Colombia, Marcela Meléndez, Francisco Alvarado y Marcela Pantoja

• Inequality and Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Data for an Old Question, Ernesto Schargrodsky y Lucía Freira 

• The Effects of Violence on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Research Agenda, Ana Arjona

• Market Concentration, Market Fragmentation, and Inequality in Latin America, Marcela Eslava, Marcela Meléndez y Nicolás Urdaneta

• Labor-Market Concentration and Earnings: Evidence from Chile, Álvaro García Marín

• The Impact of Labor Market Institutions on Markups and Markdowns: Evidence from Manufacturing and Service Sectors in Uruguay, Carlos Casacuberta y Nestor Gandelman

• The Political Economy of The Telecommunications Reform in Mexico, Alejandro Castañeda y Daniel Ruíz 

• How do Labor Unions Affect Inequality and Efficiency in Latin America and the Caribbean?, Lucas Ronconi

• Lobbying for Inequality? How Different Business Elites Navigate the Policy-Making Process in Central America, Mónica Pachón y Javier Brolo

• Big Business and the Inequality Trap in Latin America: Taxes, Collusion, and Undue Influence, Ben Ross Schneider

• The Latin American Growth Shortfall: Productivity and Inequality, Eduardo Fernández-Arias y Nicolás Fernández-Arias

• Longer-run Perspectives on Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America: 1933-1992, Guido Neidhöfer

• Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America in Comparative Perspective, Florencia Torche

• The Changing Picture of Inequality in Latin America: Evidence for Three Decades, Leonardo Gasparini y Guillermo Cruces