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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-González, Johanna - In: Cuadernos de economía 35 (2016), pp. 75-117
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Special issue: Gender, sex, ethnicity, race, and class in the economics profession in Latin America
Hurtado, Jimena (ed.); Pinzón-Fuchs, Erich (ed.) - 2021
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Do Remittances Have a Flip Side? A General Equilibrium Analysis of Remittances, Labor Supply Responses, and Policy Options for Jamaica
Bussolo, Maurizio; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
Econometric analysis has established a negative relationship between labor supply and remittances in Jamaica. The authors incorporate this ex-post evidence in a general equilibrium model to investigate economywide effects of increased remittance inflows. In this model, remittances reduce labor...
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The Patterns and Determinants of Household Welfare Growth in Jordan : 2002-2010
Mansour, Wael - 2013
Jordan's economic growth in the past decade has translated into a significant rise in household consumption and a … disparities. Using official household expenditure surveys for 2002, 2008, and 2010, this paper analyzes the patterns and … determinants of household welfare growth and examines the extent to which economic growth has been inclusive of the more vulnerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557131
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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women???s Occupational Constraints
Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano; da Silva, … - 2012
This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first part provides a review of the evidence on these...
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Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth
Morrison, Andrew; Raju, Dhushyanth; Sinha, Nistha - 2012
household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty …
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The Home as Factory Floor : Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers
Cunningham, Wendy; Gomez, Carlos Ramos - 2013
status, not the presence of children, suggesting that simply being the primary caregiver in the household, regardless of the …
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El estado de salud del adulto mayor en América Latina
Jewell, R. Todd; Rossi, Máximo; Triunfo, Patricia - In: Cuadernos de economía 26 (2007) 1, pp. 147-167
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What exactly is "bad news" in foreign exchange markets? : evidence from Latin American markets
Maya, Cecilia; Gómez, Karoll - In: Cuadernos de economía 45 (2008), pp. 161-183
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Volatility spillovers between equity and currency markets : evidence from major Latin American countries
Nieves Morales, Lucía de las - In: Cuadernos de economía 45 (2008), pp. 185-215
This paper investigates the nature of volatility spillovers between stock returns and a number of exchange rates in six Latin American countries and one European economy in the 1998-2006 period. We divide our sample into sub periods, prior to and after the introduction of the Euro and we apply...
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