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Inflation and Labor Market Flexibility: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

Loboguerrero, Ana María; Panizza, Ugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

Inflation can grease the wheels of the labor market by relaxing downward wage rigidity but it can also increase … interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show … that in industrial countries with highly regulated labor markets, the grease effect of inflation dominates the sand effect …

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Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance

Calderón, César; León, Gianmarco; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

This paper study the issue of institutional enforcement of regulations by focusing on labor-market policies and their … potential link to economic performance. It test the different impacts of enforceable and non-enforceable labor regulations by … proxying non-enforceable labor rigidity measures using data on conventions from the International Labor Organization (ILO). It …

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Employment Protection and Gross Job Flows: A Differences-in-Differences Approach

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Micco, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

higher labor flexibility. These effects occur within the sample of developed and developing countries and are very large in …

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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2012 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la Evaluabilidad de los Proyectos del Banco 2012

Inter-American Development Bank; Office of Evaluation … - 2013

In 2011 OVE began using the DEM and the self-evaluation system as a way to assess the evaluability of the Bank's portfolio by validating the DEMs of a sample of projects. The first exercise was used as pilot to set the standards OVE would use and to inform the Board and Management of the new...

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2011 Evaluability Review of Bank Projects Title: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2012

During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...

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A Decade of Development Thinking

Lora, Eduardo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Panizza, Ugo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

The Research Department of the IDB (RES) performs innovative, comparative research on the development issues of greatest concern to the region today. It generates a wide variety of products based on this research and disseminates them to three principal audiences: the Bank, policymakers and the...

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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2011 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011

Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...

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Organizational Change and Skill Accumulation

Guellec, Dominique; Greenan, Nathalie; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2001

division of labor. Moreover, as firms switch to decentralization, their employment structure becomes more homogeneous and wage …

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Asian affairs

Biśvabidyālaẏa <Dhaka> / Study Group; Centre for … - Dacca : SG - 1.1980 -

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The Asian Industrial Policy Experience: Implications for Latin America

Noland, Marcus; Pack, Howard - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

The paper aims to communicate to the Latin American audience both factual evidence regarding the Asian experience, and the possible implications of this historical legacy for contemporary Latin American economic development strategies.

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