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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

(Argentina, Chile, Costa Rica, and Uruguay) using micro-data for manufacturing firms from innovation surveys. Building on the …This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only …

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Does Technology in Schools Affect Repetition, Dropout and Enrollment? Evidence from Peru

Czerwonko, Alejo Eduardo; Cristia, Julian; Garofalo, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

Many developing countries are allocating significant resources to expanding technology access in schools. Whether these investments will translate into measurable educational improvements remains an open question because of the limited evidence available. This paper contributes to filling that...

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Innovation and Productivity: Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … Latin American countries (Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Panama, and Uruguay) using micro data from innovation … surveys. In line with the literature, in all countries firms that invest in knowledge are more able to introduce new …

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Does ICT Increase Years of Education?: Evidence from Peru

Cristia, Julian; Czerwonko, Alejo Eduardo; Garofalo, Pablo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

A number of empirical studies have measured the effect of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on test scores, yet there is a lack of empirical evidence on the effects of this type of intervention on drop-out and repetition rates, variables that have a direct impact on years of...

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Innovation for Economic Performance: The Case of Latin American and Caribbean Firms Title: Innovación para el desempeño económico: El caso de las empresas en América Latina y el Ca...

Tacsir, Ezequiel; Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

Enterprise Surveys define innovation rates as the share of firms introducing product and process innovations. The survey also …In this note, a wide range of innovation indicators are analyzed in order to describe the innovation behavior of … manufacturing firms in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region using the recently released Enterprise Surveys 2010. The …

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