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The political economy of pension reform : public opinion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Machado, Fabiana V.P.; Vesga, Giselle - 2015
Countries around the world are facing important challenges to the sustainability of their pension systems. Changing policies, especially those of large scope and financial magnitude, is a political challenge. It takes a combination of willingness, capacity and enough political support to change...
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Incumbent advantage, voter information and vote buying
Cruz, Cesi; Keefer, Philip; Labonne, Julien - 2016
Results from a new experiment shed light on the effects of voter information on vote buying and incumbent advantage. The treatment provided voters with information about a major spending program and the proposed allocations and promises of mayoral candidates just prior to municipal elections. It...
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The trade-off between deepening and broadening of democracy : lessons from youth enfranchisement
Koukal, Anna Maria; Schafer, Patricia; Eichenberger, Reiner - 2020
Broadening democracy by lowering the voting age is on the political agenda in many democratic societies. Previous suffrage extensions suggest that there are systematic differences between what parliaments decide and what voters want with respect to enfranchisement of new groups. This paper...
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Migración forzada y finanzas públicas locales : evidencia de los municipios en Colombia
Traettino, Salvador - 2023
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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America
Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata Del Tedesco - 2023
This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...
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On the long-run unemployment, inflation, and volatility
Fasani, Stefano - 2021
This paper builds up a simple New Keynesian model and revisits the relationship between unemployment and in ation in … beyond the tradeoff between the first moments of unemployment and infl ation provided by the short-run Phillips curve. Higher … volatility in ifln ation raises unemployment at low-frequency. Increased volatility in infl ation makes nominal wages more …
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Informalidad en los tiempos del COVID-19 en América Latina : implicaciones y opciones de amortiguamiento
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2021
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Importing inequality : immigration and the top 1 percent
Advani, Arun; Koenig, Felix; Pessina, Lorenzo; Summers, Andy - 2020
In this paper we study the contribution of migrants to the rise in UK top incomes. Using administrative data on the universe of UK taxpayers we show migrants are over-represented at the top of the income distribution, with migrants twice as prevalent in the top 0.1% as anywhere in the bottom...
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Employment cyclicality by firm size, wage, and productivity in Brazil
Cravo, Túlio; Jacinto, Paulo de Andrade; Schimanski, … - 2018 - Version: August 27th, 2018
firms are more cyclically sensitive to unemployment. Besides, the VAR impulse response analysis suggests that workers move …
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Labor market gender gaps in the time of COVID-19 in Latin America and the Caribbean
Acevedo, Ivonne; Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; … - 2022
This study shows that the trend of declining gender gaps in labor market indicators in Latin America in previous decades did not change significantly in most countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. However, a closer look at the dynamics during the 2019-2021 period shows that (i) women were...
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