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Partners or Creditors? Attracting Foreign Investment and Productive Development to Central America and Dominican Republic Title: ¿Socios o acreedores? Atracción de inversión extran...
Cuevas, Mario; Manzano, Osmel; Auguste, Sebastián; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Promotion of foreign direct investment (FDI) has been a priority policy goal in Central America, Panama and Dominican Republic for the past twenty years. Fiscal benefits are among the policies that have been used to attract it. At first sight the model followed has been fruitful. In 2013 the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011249335
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Employability in the Southern Cone
Gasparini, Leonardo; Winkler, Hernán; Haimovich, Francisco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
employment and unemployment in the Southern Cone, and suggesting policy directions to increase decent employment in the region … employment dynamics, the authors exploit the rotating panel structure of the Argentina¿s household survey. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009205801
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Secondary Schools and the Transition to Work in Latin America and the Caribbean
Castro, Claudio de Moura; Carnoy, Martin; Wolff, Laurence - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper provides an analysis of the organization of secondary schools in Latin America and the Caribbean. It deals with the confusing and controversial matters of providing schools for an increasingly heterogeneous clientele and the triple role of preparing students for higher education,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009216219
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Innovation, Employment and Skills in Advanced and Developing Countries: A Survey of the Literature
Vivarelli, Marco - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper critically discusses the theoretical and empirical literature on the quantitative and qualitative employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393120
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Returns to Education, Sector Premiums, and Male Wage Inequality in Mexico
Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper examines Mexico's increase in wage inequality using data from household surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso Gasto de los Hogares de México) produced by the Mexican Institute for Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322804
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Innovation and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357896
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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform
Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357929
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Group Support to the Microenterprise Sector: (1990-2000)
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
The IDB Group, guided by its Strategy for Microenterprise Development, has made the creation of a sustainable market of services to the sector one of its most important priorities during the past decade. This report presents an overview of the contributions the IDB has made to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291848
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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 and Employment Growth in Costa Rica: A Firm-level Analysis
Monge-González, Ricardo; Rodríguez-Alvarez, Juan A.; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment …, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary by firm size and type of employment … process innovations on employment growth. Particular attention is paid to identifying innovation impacts on employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653224