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Creating New Opportunities for Rural Producers. Impact Evaluation of a Pilot Program in Colombia

Rozo, Sandra; Soares, Yuri Suarez Dillon; Diez, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

. Cluster promotion is seen as an effective industrial policy tool aimed at improving productivity and employment generation …

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Technological and Nontechnological Innovation and Productivity in Services vis a vis Manufacturing in Uruguay

Aboal, Diego; Garda, Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

-technological innovation), and productivity in services and manufacturing are explored using innovation survey data from Uruguay. This is the …) innovations are positively associated to productivity gains in services, but nontechnological innovations have a more important … role. The reverse happens for manufacturing; technological innovations are the relevant ones for productivity. …

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Innovation and Productivity - Evidence from Six Latin American Countries

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

This study examines the determinants of technological innovation and its impact on firm labor productivity across six … technological advances, and those that innovate have greater labor productivity than those that do not. Yet firm-level determinants … productivity, however, highlight the importance of innovation in enabling firms to improve economic performance and catch up. …

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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 … increase informality and reduce skilled labor demand. In contrast, corporate income taxes may help reduce informality …

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Housing Demand in Brazil: Evidence from the Formal and Informal Sectors

Piza, Caio; Litchfield, Julie; Balderrama, Fernando - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper describes the determinants of housing demand in Brazil, with the intention of informing policy aimed at reducing the housing deficit and increasing home ownership. As price elasticity for renters is slightly higher, public policies that aim to influence the price of dwellings and/or...

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Labor Exclusion and the Erosion of Citizenship Responsibilities

Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2015

This paper shows that workers who do not receive legally mandated benefits due to employer noncompliance have a negative view not only of their employers, as has been documented, but also of the State. Those workers believe that the State did not protect their rights, and hence they feel fewer...

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Evaluating A Program of Public Funding of Private Innovation Activities. An Econometric Study of FONTAR in Argentina.

Chudnovsky, Daniel; López, Andrés; Rossi, Martín; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The paper contains and impact evaluation of matching grants to promote investments in innovation on firm financed R&D and other output variables.

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Evaluating a Program of Public Funding of Scientific Activity. A Case Study of FONCYT in Argentina.

Chudnovsky, Daniel; López, Andrés; Rossi, Martín; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006

The paper contains an impact evaluation of research subsidies on the academic performance of researchers in Argentina.

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Trade and the Skill Premium Puzzle with Capital Market Imperfections

Bonfatti, Roberto; Ghatak, Maitreesh - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011

An interesting puzzle is that trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s has been associated with a sharp increase in the skill premium in both developed and developing countries. This is in contrast with neoclassical theory, according to which trade should increase the relative return of the...

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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms

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

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

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