Institutionalizing Inequality: The Political Origins of Labor Codes in Latin America

Carnes, Matthew E.

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“…Unions have the strongest and best documented effect on continuities in labor market regulation (IDB 2003: 219). These effects largely conform to expectations of approaches that emphasize feedback loops, path dependence, and insider/outsider cleavages (Rueda 2005, Carnes 2009). Lacking leverage in direct negotiations with employers, unions invested heavily in ties to states and political parties (Buchanan 1995).…”

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“…Existing historical studies are mostly concerned with labor regulation. Some suggest that the complementarities we identify, between labor unions, skill regime, and labor regulation were important in the creation of labor regimes (Carnes 2009). Other researchers emphasize more contingent historical factors, most importantly the history of labor incorporation (Collier andCollier 1991, Cook 2007).…”

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

Schneider¹,

Karcher²

2010

Socio-Economic Review

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Abstract. In a comparative institutional or 'variety of capitalism' perspective, the distinctive traits of labor markets in Latin America differ in most respects from labor markets in developed countries. Moreover, there are strong economic complementarities among five core features of labor markets in Latin America: low skill levels, high labor regulation, short job tenure, a large informal sector, and small, politicized unions that lack plant level representation. While numerous and strong, economic complementarities among these five components do not tell the whole story, and we analyze additional political complementarities. This integrated perspective on the economic and political interactions helps explain continuities in labor markets in Latin America and their disappointing response in recent decades to market reform and globalization.

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

Schneider¹,

Karcher²

2010

Socio-Economic Review

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2024

Global Dynamics of Social Policy

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This chapter offers an examination of the incorporation effects of social protection in Latin America. The analysis focuses on two intertwined elements: (i) the features of the ‘critical realignments’ shaping the incorporation effects of the emergent institutions; and (ii) the theories that can be brought to bear to explain change. The main findings from the chapter can be summarised as follows. First, developments in social protection in the region are primarily explained by processes of incorporation and disincorporation of wage earners. Second, in Latin America the incorporation and disincorporation effects of social protection institutions confirm that intra-class (wage earners) fragmentation and aggregation is more important than inter-class coalitions for the politics of welfare institutions. Third, identifying and studying critical realignments is essential to explaining changes in social protection institutions and the resulting processes of incorporation and disincorporation. Fourth, it makes sense to seek to develop theoretical frameworks from an understanding of the Latin American context. Fifth, the literature on the politics of social protection appears to have an in-built elite bias. Focusing on the incorporation effects of social protection institutions shifts attention to wage earners, the primary actors of social protection.

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Institutionalizing Inequality: The Political Origins of Labor Codes in Latin America

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

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

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