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Unemployment Insurance and Search Effort in Chile
Huneeus, Cristobal; Leiva, Silvia; Micco, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Unemployment is a pressing problem in many countries in Latin America. Financial crises and increased globalization … increase job turnover and therefore the risk of unemployment. To protect workers, Chile implemented an innovative unemployment … job search behavior between workers who use unemployment benefits and those who do not. Search efforts were found to fall …
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Industrial and technological development
Teitel, Simón - 1993
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000870984
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Evaluating the Impact of Science, Technology and Innovation Programs: a Methodological Toolkit
Crespi, Gustavo A.; Maffioli, Alessandro; Mohnen, Pierre; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The purpose of this guideline is to provide ideas and technical advice on how to measure the effectiveness of Science, Technology and Innovation Programs (STIP). The paper addresses the specific challenges of evaluating STIP, from the assessment of the intervention logic to the choice of the...
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Export Pioneers in Latin America
Fernandez-Arias, Eduardo; Stein, Ernesto; Sabel, Charles; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Export Pioneers in Latin America analyzes a series of case studies of successful new export activities throughout the region to learn how pioneers jump-start a virtuous process leading to economic transformation. The cases of blueberries in Argentina, avocados in Mexico, and aircraft in Brazil...
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Innovation, Research and Development, and Productivity: Case Studies from Peru
Kuramoto, Juana - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper analyzes quantitative findings on the innovative behavior of firms in the production chains of pisco and shoe manufacture in Peru, which are served by the network of Technological Innovation Centers (CITEs), the most important technology policy instrument available in Peru. These two...
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The Impact of Internet Banking on the Performance of Micro and Small Enterprises in Costa Rica: A Randomized Controlled Experiment
Monge-Gonzalez, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
This paper uses a randomized controlled experiment in Costa Rica to determine whether IB use by Banco Nacional de Desarrollo`s micro and small enterprise (MSE) clients has an impact on their performance, measured in terms of productivity, increase in sales, and cost reduction. Results from the...
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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-level data. It is found that the production of goods and services new to the firm and to the domestic market enhances firms` sales per worker, and innovation that results in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009643438
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Raúl Prebisch : el poder, los principios y la ética del desarrollo. Ensayos en homenaje a David Pollock por la celebración de los 100 años del nacimiento de Raúl Prebisch
Dosman, Edgar J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
Es difícil describir o interpretar la historia económica de América Latina sin hacer referencia a la enorme contribución de Raúl Prebisch. Su figura se proyecta a través de la región como la de un gigante en pensamiento y acción. Las huellas de su legado continuan siendo indudablemente...
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Analysis of Several Productive Development Policies in Uruguay
Barrios, Juan Jose; Gandelman, Nestor; Michelin, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper reviews and assesses some of the Productive Development Policies currently being implemented in Uruguay. Three horizontal and three vertical policies are considered in light of the market and public failures they attempt to address and minimize. Horizontal policies comprise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518152
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Innovation and Productivity in the Argentine Manufacturing Sector
Arza, Valeria; Lopez, Andres - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010
This paper adapts the Crepon, Duguet, and Mairesse (1998) approach to estimate the relationship between innovation and productivity and the realities of innovative activities in developing countries. Panel data for Argentina during the period 1998-2004 to estimate a structural model in which...
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