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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M. (contributor); Fugazza, Marco (contributor) - 2008
with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003722146
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Schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries
Celhay, Pablo A.; Gallegos, Sebastian - 2024
This paper presents new evidence on schooling mobility across three generations in six Latin American countries. By combining survey information with national census data, we have constructed a novel dataset that includes 50,000 triads of grandparents, parents, and children born between 1890 and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552644
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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Four Latin American countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We provide causal evidence that children's school schedules contribute to the persistence of the gender pay gap between parents. Historically, French children have had no school on Wednesdays. In 2013, a reform reallocated some classes to Wednesday mornings. Exploiting variations in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012296661
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Evolving wage cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca; Messina, Julián - 2017
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011636567
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Comparative analysis of labor market dynamics using Markov processes: an application to informality
Bosch Mossi, Mariano (contributor);  … - 2007
using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003557346
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No education, no good jobs? : Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation
Pagés, Carmen (contributor); Stampini, Marco (contributor) - 2007
This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003603607
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Earnings mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela : testing the divergence of earnings and the symmetry of mobility hypotheses
Fields, Gary S.; Duval-Hernández, Robert; Freije, Samuel; … - 2007
economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … occasional support for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support … at all in the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003608457
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School starting age and the impact on school admission
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio P. - 2023
This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of students' initial enrolled schools. Employing minimum age requirements and an RD-design to mitigate endogeneity concerns, we identify benefits linked to commencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014326781
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A snapshot on the quality of seven home visit parenting programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011571942
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The "informality gap": can education help minorities escape informal employment? : evidence from Peru
Delgado Montes, Juan Gabriel; Corrales, Javier; … - 2016
Discrimination in formal labor markets can push discriminated groups into labor informality, where wages are lower and pensions scarce. In this paper, we explore whether education offsets discrimination by empowering discriminated groups to successfully compete for formal jobs. Specifically, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011594126