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abstract: 'Flexibility proponents assert that rigid Latin American labour markets
impede economic expansion and job growth; they advocate reforming labour
codes through increased flexibility. Critics argue that heightened
labour flexibility exacerbates inequality without expanding employment.
From this perspective, precarious employment and inequality are remedied
by strengthening labour''s bargaining power. Chile''s maintenance of
flexible labour reforms adopted during the dictatorship make it
appropriate for evaluating these competing perspectives. Based on
flexibility proponents'' predictions, we should expect increased formal
sector employment over time, particularly among the least skilled
Chilean workers, as well as reduced wage inequality. Yet, the rate of
unemployment among least skilled workers in Chile remains essentially
unchanged since the democratic transition as does income inequality.
These conditions persist despite a high degree of labour market
flexibility. Thus, Chile''s continued adherence to a flexibilised labour
market should be understood not in terms of its capacity to reduce
inequality or generate employment. Rather, it should be understood as
the product of several interrelated factors: (1) the business sector''s
ability to protect its interests; (2) the Concertacion''s conscious
limitation of threats to the business sector''s interests and (3) the
weakness of organised labour, resulting from the perpetuation of the
Pinochet-era labour regime.'
affiliation: 'Posner, PW (Corresponding Author), Clark Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Worcester,
MA 01610 USA.
Posner, Paul W., Clark Univ, Dept Polit Sci, Worcester, MA 01610 USA.'
author: Posner, Paul W.
author-email: pposner@clarku.edu
author_list:
- family: Posner
given: Paul W.
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1080/13563467.2016.1216534
eissn: 1469-9923
files: []
issn: 1356-3467
journal: NEW POLITICAL ECONOMY
keywords: 'Chile; labour flexibility; income inequality; employment; union
bargaining power'
keywords-plus: 'NEOLIBERAL ERA; LATIN-AMERICA; DEMOCRACY; TRANSFORMATION; STRATEGIES;
POLICY'
language: English
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '65'
pages: 237-256
papis_id: 0c977dc4815462e73737d9e10f3fdd05
ref: Posner2017labourmarket
times-cited: '8'
title: 'Labour market flexibility, employment and inequality: lessons from Chile'
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type: article
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unique-id: WOS:000396558600008
usage-count-last-180-days: '1'
usage-count-since-2013: '23'
volume: '22'
web-of-science-categories: Economics; International Relations; Political Science
year: '2017'