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Hysteresis in Unemployment:Evidence from Latin America
Mednik, Matias; Rodriguez, Cesar M.; Ruprah, Inder J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper tests the hysteresis hypothesis in unemployment for 13 Latin American countries covering the period 1980-2005. The tests exploit the time series and the cross sectional variation of the series, and allows for cross section dependence and a different number of endogenously determined...
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Innovation, Research and Development Investment and Productivity in Colombian Firms
Arbelaez, Maria Angelica; Torrado, Monica Parra - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper attempts to establish a formal relationship between innovation and productivity using Colombian firm … sales and Total Factor Productivity (TFP). Innovation in processes likewise improves firms` productivity and sales. Finally …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643438
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Adapting to Climate Change: Long-Term Effects of Drought on Local Labor Markets
Bastos, Paulo; Busso, Matias; Miller, Sebastian - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
sector; leads to job losses and pay cuts in the local manufacturing and services sectors; and induces out-migration …
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The Impact of Economic Migration on Children’s Cognitive Development: Evidence from the Mexican Family Life Survey
Powers, Elizabeth - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper uses data from the Mexican Family Life Survey to estimate the impact of a household member’s migration to … the effect of parental migration is comparable to speaking an indigenous language at home or having a mother with very low … educational attainment. Additionally, household-member migration to the United States affects how children spend their time in …
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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee
Monge-Gonzalez, Ricardo; Rodriguez-Alvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...
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On Emerging Economy Sovereign Spreads and Ratings
Powell, Andrew; Martínez, Juan Francisco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper analyzes alternative models for emerging sovereign ratings. Although a small number of economic fundamentals explain ratings reasonably well, variations in those economic fundamentals are themselves explained by a small number of world factors. On the other hand, global financial...
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Is Export Promotion Effective in Developing Countries? Firm-Level Evidence on the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Exports
Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
How effective are export promotion activities in developing countries? What are the channels through which export promotion affects firms' exports, the intensive margin or the extensive margin? Empirical evidence in this respect is scarce. We aim at filling this gap in the literature by...
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Aid Effectiveness: Politics Matters
Bobba, Matteo; Powell, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
The literature on aid effectiveness has focused more on recipient policies than the determinants of aid allocation yet a consistent result is that political allies obtain more aid from donors than non-allies. This paper shows that aid allocated to political allies is ineffective for growth,...
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Second-tier Government Banks and Access to Credit: Micro-Evidence from Colombia
Eslava, Marcela; Maffioli, Alessandro; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Government-owned development banks have often been justified by the need to respond to financial market imperfections that hinder the establishment and growth of promising businesses, and as a result, stifle economic development more generally. However, evidence on the effectiveness of these...
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Export Promotion: Heterogeneous Programs and Heterogeneous Effects
Martincus, Christian Volpe; Carballo, Jerónimo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
Export promotion agencies provide exporters with a broad range of services, going from counseling to sponsoring their participation in international trade missions and fairs. These services may have heterogeneous effects and thus contribute differently to achieve the goals of these...
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