Skip to main content Accessibility help

We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.

Close cookie message
×
  1. Home
  2. Journals
  3. Latin American Politics and Society
  4. Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs
  5. Volume 18
Journal Home
Refine listing

Refine listing

Access:
Publication date:

Actions for selected content:

Select all | Deselect all
  • View selected items
  • Export citations
  • Download PDF (zip)
  • Save to Kindle
  • Save to Dropbox
  • Save to Google Drive

Save Search

You can save your searches here and later view and run them again in "My saved searches".

Please provide a title, maximum of 40 characters.
Cancel
×
< Back to all issues

Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Volume 18 - February 1976

Contents

Page 2 of 2

Review Essay

Books Received

Research Article

  • Manpower, Labor Absorption, and Employment in Colombia: An Alternative Viewpoint

  • David T. Geithman
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 237-242

  • The Zudak paper (1976) restates in the Colombian context, without adding much that is new, some of the difficulties inherent in defining for practical applications the capital, labor, and output variables. He decides that the output-to-capital ratio in the case of Colombia is about .6 rather than .5 as suggested by Geithman and Landers in an earlier article in this journal (1973). Zudak concludes that the Colombian unemployment problem might best be managed by (1) improving the operation of the labor market, which Geithman-Landers advocated earlier, and (2) reducing the length of the work week. The latter suggestion, he apparently argues, is preferable to other possible policy responses to the employment situation recommended by Geithman-Landers. These consist primarily of (a) the development of additional labor-using production processes in the modern sector to expand the range of technical substitutability in that sector; (b) an active policy of income redistributton in the direction of greater equality in order to spur the demand for traditional sector output and dampen the demand for modern sector goods; and (c) a serious move toward land redistribution and reform as one available means of loosening the country's capital constraint.

Other

Front matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f4
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Editorial

  • Manpower, Labor Absorption, and Employment in Colombia: Editorial Note

  • Jan Peter Wogart
  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. 243-244
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Front matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f4
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Review Essay

Back matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 3 Cover and Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b6
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

  • JWA volume 18 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b10
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Front matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f4
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Review Essay

Back matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 4 Cover and Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b6
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Books Received

Front matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Front matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. f1-f5
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Back matter

  • JWA volume 18 issue 2 Cover and Back matter

  • Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 January 2018, pp. b1-b10
    • Article
      • You have access
    • PDF
    • Export citation

Page 2 of 2