Poza pełne zatrudnienie: pracodawca ostatniej szansy jako instytucja umożliwiająca zmianę
Beyond Full Employment: The Employer of Last Resort as an Institution for Change?

Summary/Abstract: Over the past decade and a half the ability of the employer-of-last-resort (ELR) proposal to deliver full employment and price stability has been discussed atlength in the literature. Argentina’s experience shows that direct job creation programs that offer employment at a base wage can have the unique capacity to empower and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities.Because the latter two problems are multidimensional, the ELR cannot be treated as a panacea,but rather as an important policy tool that remedies some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence based on narrativesby female participants in a direct job creation program (Jefes de Hogar) to assess these potentially transformative aspects of the ELR proposal.

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