De nuevo el Gobierno de Cuba (GC) está envuelto en un lento y parcial proceso de ajustes socioeconómicos. Está repitiendo algunos tímidos y cautos ajustes que empleó en los años 1980s y 1990s. Si bien tienen algunos aspectos novedosos y transformadores— p. ej. el abandono de la errónea política de pleno empleo, la autorización de […]
Minimalism, Obsolescence and Transferability: The Labor Market Impact of the New Self-Employment Regulations
Notes1 For years, Cuba was and remains one of the world’s nations with the greatest share of workers employed by the state, currently about 80% of the workforce. While widespread government employment kept unemployment rates low, it engendered substantial underemployment and low labor productivity, perennial problems of Cuba’s socialist economy (Mesa-Lago 2010). Following the collapse […]
2011 Preface
The 21st Volume of Cuba in Transition publishes the Proceedings of the annual meeting of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy (ASCE), held on August 4-6, 2011 at the Hilton Downtown Hotel in Miami, Florida. The conference theme was “Cuba’s Evolving Socio-Economic & Political Landscape,” which reflects an attempt to analyze the […]
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