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“Still Not There”: Low Female Labor Participation and Culture in Chile, by Daniela Paz and Clara Gianola

07.8.19

This article appears in the Spring 2019 edition of the Latin America Policy Journal released on April 2019. You can order the edition here. Introduction Gender equality is today at the top of the international agenda, as in the past decades we have seen the emergence of diverse social movements advocating for the expansion of women’s […]

The Low U.S. Unemployment Rate Should Not Be Celebrated

08.7.17

In 1867, Karl Marx famously declared, “It is the absolute interest of every capitalist to press a given quantity of labor out of a smaller, rather than a greater number of laborers, if the cost is about the same.” Since then, the phenomenon of the “reserve army of labor,” or the existence of structural unemployment […]

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