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The impact of robots in Latin America : evidence from local labor markets
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023
in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan immigration in Peru
Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez, Bruno - 2022
employment by 6%. We do not find evidence for changes in employment composition toward informality so that migration operates …
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Labor informality and market segmentation in Senegal
Rodríguez-Castelán, Carlos; Vazquez, Emmanuel - 2023
Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase …-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify the extent of involuntary informality in Senegal, a representative … country in terms of levels of informality in West Africa and with one of the most rigid labor markets in the world. Results …
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Gender gaps in labor informality : the motherhood effect
Berniell, Inés; Berniell, Lucila; Mata, Dolores de la; … - 2019
US. But these results may not apply to developing countries, where labor markets work differently and informality is …
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries : the labor supply impact by gender
Viollaz, Mariana; Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Flabbim, Luca; … - 2022
We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...
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Big Data y Algoritmos para la Medición de la Pobreza y el Desarrollo
Sosa Escudero, Walter - 2023
Eritrea es un pequeño país del noreste de África, al que casi todos los rankings ubican entre los tres más pobres del mundo. Eritrea hace 30 años que no tiene un censo (Jerven, 2013). Eritrea es como un hipertenso severo que no puede medirse la presión, que no puede consultar a un médico....
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Job loss and household labor supply adjustments in developing countries : evidence from Argentina
Ciaschi, Matías - 2020
Using longitudinal data for Argentina, this paper measures the labor supply reaction of different household members to a breadwinner’s job loss. Firm events and local unemployment shocks are exploited as exogenous sources of variation to estimate the causal effect. Our main findings show that...
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The distributional effect of a massive exodus in Latin America and the role of downgrading and regularization
Lombardo, Carlo; Martinez-Correa, Julian; … - 2021
The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013178124
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Beyond traditional wage premium : an analysis of wage greenium in Latin America
Cerimelo, Manuela; Vega, Pablo de la; Porto, Natalia; … - 2024
This paper estimates wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (wage greenium) in nine major Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region’s GDP. We contribute to the recent literature...
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