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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651824
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
productivity, but the impact is heterogeneous across programs and indicators of firm performance. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653084
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357896
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
demand characteristics (skills and gender). In particular the research focuses on the differential effects of product and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653224
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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s
Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in … alternative data sources to construct instrumental variables for wages. The second is to examine differences across four …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943675
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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries
Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944237
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Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes
Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944562
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The Effect of Mandated Child Care on Female Wages in Chile
Prada, María; Rucci, Graciana; Urzúa, Sergio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015
This paper studies the effect of mandated employer-provided child care on the wages of women hired in large firms in … with 20 or more female workers. The results indicate that the monthly starting wages of the infra-marginal woman hired in a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011250899