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Rethinking Earnings Determinants in the Urban Areas of Bolivia
Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2011
This paper analyzes the factors that explain earnings in levels and inequality in the urban areas of Bolivia … determinants for urban Bolivia as well as to the vision of labor income and poverty problems. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391447
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Determinantes de los Ingresos Laborales en las Zonas Urbanas de Bolivia
Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2010
La investigación analiza los determinantes de los ingresos laborales en las zonas urbanas de Bolivia. Además de …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691160
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Informality and Productivity in Bolivia: A Gender Differentiated Empirical Analysis
Andersen, Lykke E.; Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2007
The urban labor market in Bolivia can be divided into 4 main sectors: 1) the public sector, 2) the formal private … in the formal private sector, there is a strong preference in Bolivia for being informally self-employed. Two thirds of … very active micro-credit industry in Bolivia, but the terms are so unattractive that women try to avoid it if at all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021926
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Mercado Laboral y Reformas en Bolivia
Muriel, Beatriz; Jemio, Luis Carlos - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2010
El estudio presenta un panorama de las reformas sociales y económicas implementadas en Bolivia desde 1985, en su … mismos rubros que las anteriores reformas, descuidando los problemas en torno a la generación de buenos empleos en Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008725738
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Labor Mobility in Bolivia: On-the-job Search Behavior of Private and Public Sector Employees
Andersen, Lykke E.; Christensen, Bent Jesper - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2006
understanding constraints in the labor market in Bolivia. The results confirm the hypothesis that skilled labor is a scarce … commodity in Bolivia, while unskilled labor is abundantly available. This implies that skilled employees shop around for … with the hypothesis that the public sector in Bolivia, inflated by high levels of foreign aid (about 10% of GDP), may be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021940
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Movilidad Laboral en Bolivia: Una Comparación entre Empleados del Sector Público y Privado
Andersen, Lykke E.; Christensen, Bent Jesper; … - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2005
Varios estudios realizados en Bolivia sugieren que los trabajadores calificados son escasos y que los puestos de … comportamiento de búsqueda de trabajo de los empleados en Bolivia. Los resultados están consistentes con la hipótesis. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021964
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Employment-Poverty Linkages and Policies: The Case of Bolivia
Jemio, Luis Carlos; Choque, Maria del Carmen - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2003
This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average productivity of the employed work force, which in turn gets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021928
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Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Bolivia
Jemio, Luis Carlos; Choque, Maria del Carmen - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2006
The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021958
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Empleo y Regulación Laboral: Análisis Empírico de las Firmas Manufactureras Bolivianas, 1988 - 2007
Hernández, Beatriz Muriel; Salas, Carlos Gustavo Machicado - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2012
El estudio analiza el empleo en las empresas manufactureras registradas bolivianas durante 1988-2007, estableciendo su relación con la regulación laboral a partir de indicadores de flujos y funciones de demanda. Los flujos de empleo muestran que las empresas con altas tasas de trabajadores...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877353
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Building Resilience against Adverse Shocks: What are the determinants of vulnerability and resilience?
Andersen, Lykke; Cardona, Marcelo - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2013
Bolivia. A second important factor is the age of the head of household. Young families are considerably more vulnerable than …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877354