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Desenvolvimento Rural na Sociedade do Conhecimento

Guedes, Pedro; Leito, Joo; Silva, Andrea - EconWPA - 2002

Globalization has a concrete territorial expression, with remaining regional asymmetries. Writers in growth and development are far away to achieve consensus about the underpinning reasons of heterogeneity in regional performance. This constitutes an important regional policy issue. This paper...

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I processi cumulativi nella crisi del debito degli anni 80: una lettura dai casi di Argentina, Brasile e Messico Cumulative processes in the 1980s debt crisis: an analysis from Arg...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper analyses the 1980s Latin American debt crisis in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico and, in particular, the influence of cumulative processes at work in its early and final stages. The paper is organised in three sections. The first examines the crisis<92> features in the three countries, and...</92>

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Sviluppo e riforme in Cile: apertura commerciale, fondi pensione e privatizzazione dei servizi/REFORMS AND DEVELOPMENT IN CHILE: Macro considerations on Int'l Trade, Pension Funds...

Panizza, Andrea de - EconWPA - 2003

This paper examines the growth pattern followed by the Chilean economy with reference to the macroeconomic reforms undertaken during the Pinochet regime, which were largely maintained by successive democratic administrations and partially reproduced by neighbouring countries. The focus is on the...

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The Two Faces of Knowledge Diffusion: the Chilean Case

Morone, Piergiuseppe - EconWPA - 2002

This paper analyses the dynamics of return to knowledge where knowledge is acquired through the combination of interactive and individual learning. We suggest that in light of this new definition of knowledge, choosing the optimal level of education is no longer an individual exercise of present...

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Do European Stock Markets Affect Latin American Stock Markets?

Rivas, Andrés; Verma, Rahul; Rodriguez, Antonio; … - EconWPA - 2005

In this study, we examine the response of Latin American stock markets to movements in European stock markets using VAR models. Our results vary depending on the openness of the country in terms of international trade. We find evidence that Latin American stock markets are responsive to changes...

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Transition in Regional Capitals along the Volga

Melo, Martha de; Ofer, Gur; Yossifov, Plamen - EconWPA - 2003

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Social ties within school classes –- the roles of gender, ethnicity, and having older siblings

Soetevent, Adriaan R.; Kooreman, Peter - EconWPA - 2005

a minor effect on within school class social interactions. There is weak evidence of decreased ethnic segregation within …

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Inequality and Segregation

Sethi, Rajiv; Somanathan, Rohini - EconWPA - 2001

equilibrium. Second, extreme levels of segregation can be stable when racial income disparities are either large or negligible … segregation when racial income disparities are sufficiently small. These results hold even when preferences are pro …

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On the Measurement of Segregation

Echenique, Federico; Roland G. Fryer Jr. - EconWPA - 2005

This paper develops a measure of segregation based on two premises: (1) a measure of segregation should disaggregate to … interacts. Developing three desirable axioms that any segregation measure should satisfy, we prove that one and only one … segregation index satisfies our three axioms, and the two aims mentioned above; which we coin the Spectral Segregation Index. We …

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Segregación ocupacional de la mujer en el mercado de trabajo del Uruguay (1986-1997)

Rossi, Maximo; Ferre, Zuleika - EconWPA - 2004

El principal objetivo de este trabajo fue analizar la evolución de la segregación ocupacional por género en Uruguay y en particular si esta evolución estuvo asociada a la tendencia en el diferencial de salarios entre hombres y mujeres. Existe un alto nivel de segregación en Uruguay y no...

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