Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …

paper evaluates the short run effects of one possible exit strategy, programs that promote self-employment, in Argentina. We …

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic … crisis, the increasing premium to education results from wages falling at a faster pace for the less educated than for …

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

workers, firms, and occupations with a focus on peer effects in wages rather than productivity. Our estimation strategy … – which links the average permanent productivity of workers' peers to their wages – circumvents the reflection problem and … accounts for the endogenous sorting of workers into peer groups and firms. On average, we find only small peer effects in wages …

unionized workforce. We develop a simple efficiency wage model, with a tradeoff between higher wages for workers and more … variety of data sets, we examine the implications of the model for the relationship between the employment and wages of … unionization in an industry and region and a higher union wage differential are associated with fewer managers. (2) Managers wages …