Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/2631 
Year of Publication: 
2001
Series/Report no.: 
Kiel Working Paper No. 1073
Publisher: 
Kiel Institute of World Economics (IfW), Kiel
Abstract: 
This paper addresses poverty reduction strategies from a labour market perspective. Structural features and constraints are emphasised using informality as a descriptive and segmentation as an analytical concept. Divergent demand-side developments combined with limited labour market mobility result in labour market segmentation. Vicious skill circles are identified that keep the poor trapped in jobs with low incomes. The analysis of the dimensions of informality in the Bolivian labour market shows that its characteristics do not correspond to the conventionally assumed informal-formal dichotomy. Empirical studies on the Bolivian case are reviewed that support the hypothesis of a segmented labour market with vicious poverty circles. The major policy conclusion for poverty reduction drawn from the analysis is that education should be more focused on employment.
Subjects: 
poverty reduction
Bolivia
dual education system
JEL: 
I3
R23
O17
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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