Unskilled labor for development : its economic cost /

By:

McDiarmid, Orville John

Contributor(s):

World Bank

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Baltimore : Published for the World Bank [by] the Johns Hopkins University Press, c1977.Description: xii, 206 pISBN:

0801819385
0801819490 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

331.7'98'091724 MCD

LOC classification:

HD4967 .M3

Summary: The book can be divided roughly into two parts. The first part contains a general discussion of the structure of labor markets in developing countries, followed by a thoughtful critique of the two methods of estimation of the social wage rate: one by M.D. Little and J.A. Mirrless (LM) and the other by P. Dasgupta, A. Sen, and S. Marglin (DSM). The second part consists of a review of labor market conditions in Korea and Taiwan in one chapter and those in Indonesia and the Philippines in another. The book also contains about 60 pages of labor statistics on the four areas mentioned. The main contribution of the book is an estimation of the ratio of the economic or social wage rate (SWR) for unskilled agricultural labor to the market or private wage rate (W) in the non- agricultural sectors of the economies of Taiwan and the Philippines.

Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.

Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Monograph & others	CBN HQ Library General Stacks	Non-fiction	331.7'98'091724 MCD (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		31008100143979

Browsing CBN HQ Library shelves, Shelving location: General Stacks, Collection: Non-fiction Close shelf browser (Hides shelf browser)

Previous	No cover image available	No cover image available	No cover image available					Next
Previous	331.7'001'2 INT International standard classification of occupations /	331.7'00973 SCO The job content of the U.S. economy, 1940-1970 /	331.7'966 FED National standard classification of occupations/	331.7'98'091724 MCD Unskilled labor for development :	331.88'091 GLO Global unions? :	331.88'0942 ROB British trade unionism :	331.88'0942 ROB British trade unionism :	Next

Includes bibliographical references: p. 203-206.

The book can be divided roughly into two parts. The first part contains a general discussion of the structure of labor markets in developing countries, followed by a thoughtful critique of the two methods of estimation of the social wage rate: one by M.D. Little and J.A. Mirrless (LM) and the other by P. Dasgupta, A. Sen, and S. Marglin (DSM). The second part consists of a review of labor market conditions in Korea and Taiwan in one chapter and those in Indonesia and the Philippines in another. The book also contains about 60 pages of labor statistics on the four areas mentioned. The main contribution of the book is an estimation of the ratio of the economic or social wage rate (SWR) for unskilled agricultural labor to the market or private wage rate (W) in the non- agricultural sectors of the economies of Taiwan and the Philippines.

rpm 16/04/2018

Loans

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.