Latin America's Labour Market Research: a State of the Art
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The author is most grateful to Gerry Rodgers for inviting him to take on this task. Acknowledgements are also due to him and Adriana Marshall for their criticisms and suggestions on an earlier version of this paper. During a short mission to Santiago the author benefited from interviews with PREALC's staff members whom he wishes to thank. Victor Tokman and Ricardo Infante were also very helpful during that visit, when the author was collecting the basic bibliographical material for his work.
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