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 …

It has traditionally been argued that the development of telecommunications infrastructure is dependent on the quality … telecommunications services and find it to be much smaller in cellular telephony than in the others. By evaluating the importance of … offer policy implications for alleviating differences between countries in international telecommunications development. …

privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier …

, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia to estimate dynamic employment equations for the period immediately before and after the start of … completely unresponsive mode characteristic of central planning, but rapidly caught up with their counterparts in Hungary and …

using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …

with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …