Market Liberalizations and Emigration from Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367891985 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 264 str.

Jon Jonakin

Opis

Market Liberalizations and Labor Emigration From Latin America provides a comprehensive analysis of the impact of the era of liberalization in Latin America, focusing in particular on labor markets and emigration from the region. This book will be of interest to scholars and researchers of economics and development i

Spis treści

 Chapter 1: Troubled Economic Narratives in a Time of ‘Globalization’

Chapter 2: Through the Looking Glass: Structural Change and Latin America’s Refracted Reality

Chapter 3: Shrinking Options While Enthusing About ‘Choice’: Labor Market Deregulation, Informality, and Emigrant Exodus

Chapter 4: The Global Liberalization That Went Missing: Undocumented Immigration and A Slew of Troubled Narratives

Chapter 5: Mexico: Liberalization’s Poster Child That Emigrated

Chapter 6: The Contradictions and Consequences of Market Liberalizations in ‘Petro-States’: the Evolutions of Venezuela and Ecuador

Chapter 7: Succumbing to Ideology: Asymmetric Rules, Disarticulated Structures, and Faux Choices

O autorze

Jon Jonakin is Emeritus Professor of Economics at Tennessee Technological University, USA