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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653084
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653454
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Innovation Policy and Employment: Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Rojo, Sofía; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009644852
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Public Programs, Innovation, and Firm Performance in Chile
Alvarez, Roberto; Crespi, Gustavo; Cuevas, Conrado - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
multiple treatment setting. Results show that these programs have generally been associated with increases in employment and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651824
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Can SME Policies Improve Firm Performance? Evidence from an Impact Evaluation in Argentina
Castillo, Victoria; Maffioli, Alessandro; Monsalvo, Ana P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper evaluates the impact of the Argentine SME support program PRE on employment, real wages, and exports. The … and quantitatively important impact of the program on employment and a positive although smaller impact on real wages and … the probability of exporting. We also find that the effect of the program on wages and the probability of exporting take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799617
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895474
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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century
Thomas, Desmond; Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; … - Inter-American Development Bank
The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943497
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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries
Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944237
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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 … depend on several aspects of labor and tax institutions. Payroll taxes reduce employment and increase labor costs when their … employment of medium- and high-education workers. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944562
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Agricultural Insurance Revisited: New Developments and Perspectives in Latin America and the Caribbean
Wenner, Mark D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
The purpose of this paper is to provide Bank staff interested in agricultural yield insurance market development …, public officials responsible for financial market policy formulation and supervision, and insurance industry practitioners in … guidelines and recommendations on how to develop viable and sustainable agricultural yield insurance markets. The paper relies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009274420