Social Protection in Latin America: Causality, Stratification and Outcomes

by Armando Barrientos

Book Overview

​This book offers a comprehensive analysis of social protection in Latin America, its origins, institutions, and outcomes. The chapters are organised in three groups. The earlier chapters discuss in turn appropriate methods, an analytical framework, and core institutions. The book advocates a causal inference approach to the study of the institutions that have dominated social protection in the region: occupational insurance, individual retirement...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031497945
• ISBN13: 9783031497940
• Release Date: April 2024
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 293 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"