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Rethinking earnings determinants in the urban areas of Bolivia
Muriel H., Beatriz - 2011
This paper analyzes the factors that explain earnings in levels and inequality in the urban areas of Bolivia, considering not only the usual individual characteristics (education, experience, gender, and ethnicity) but also firm characteristics. Given the information available at the firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326936
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Determinantes de los ingresos laborales en las zonas urbanas de Bolivia
Muriel H., Beatriz - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273902
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Rethinking Earnings Determinants in the Urban Areas of Bolivia
Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2011
This paper analyzes the factors that explain earnings in levels and inequality in the urban areas of Bolivia, considering not only the usual individual characteristics (education, experience, gender, and ethnicity) but also firm characteristics. Given the information available at the firm level...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009391447
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Determinantes de los Ingresos Laborales en las Zonas Urbanas de Bolivia
Muriel, Beatriz - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2010
La investigación analiza los determinantes de los ingresos laborales en las zonas urbanas de Bolivia. Además de considerar los usuales “factores de oferta” como factores explicativos — educación, experiencia, género y etnia, aporta a la literatura empírica al tomar en cuenta también...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008691160
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Globalization, peace & stability, governance, and knowledge economy
Amavilah, Voxi; Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - 2014
, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research … effects on peace and stability, and peace and stability affect governance differently depending on what kind of globalization … induces it. For instance, the effects on governance induced by globalization defined as trade are stronger than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464530
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Globalization, Peace & Stability, Governance, and Knowledge Economy
Amavilah, Voxi; Asongu, Simplice A.; Andrés, Antonio R. - Instituto de Estudios Avanzados en Desarrollo (INESAD) - 2014
, which affects governance and through governance the knowledge economy. The claim addresses one weakness of previous research … effects on peace and stability, and peace and stability affect governance differently depending on what kind of globalization … induces it. For instance, the effects on governance induced by globalization defined as trade are stronger than those …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099753
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Targeting credit through community members: Job market paper
Vera Cossio, Diego Alejandro - 2017
Delegating the allocation of public resources to community members is an increasingly popular form of delivering development programs and are associated with a tradeoff between improved information about potential beneficiaries and favoritism towards local elites. Unlike targeting cash transfers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011817590
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Employment-Poverty Linkages and Policies: The Case of Bolivia
Jemio, Luis Carlos; del Carmen Choque, Maria - 2003
This study focuses on analysing the linkages between output growth, employment and poverty, at both the macro and micro levels. At the macro level, the linkage between poverty and output growth is conceptualised in terms of the average productivity of the employed work force, which in turn gets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940999
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Towards a More Employment-Intensive and Pro-Poor Economic Growth in Bolivia
Jemio, Luis Carlos; del Carmen Choque, Maria - 2006
The reform program and growth pattern exhibited by the Bolivian economy in the last decade did not favour employment creation and consequently not an effective reduction of poverty. During the last decade, those sectors where the bulk of employment is concentrated, presented the lowest growth...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941029
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Las características y el desarrollo de la economía popular: Un modelo formal con evidencia etnográfica
Morales, Joaquín; Salinas, Valeria - 2018
We explore reasons underlying the economic prosperity of certain popular merchants in Bolivia. Even if economics often associates popular merchants with poor economic performance and low productivity, anthropological evidence shows the existence of large fortunes in the bolivian popular economy...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156989