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The distribution of income in Central America

Gindling, Thomas; Trejos, Juan Diego - 2013

distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. -- income inequality ; Central America ; labour income …

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Gone with the storm : rainfall shocks and household well-being in Guatemala

Baez, Javier E.; Lucchetti, Leonardo; Genoni, Maria Eugenia - 2015

strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept - on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts previously attributed solely to the …

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Women in paid employment: a role for public policies and social norms in Guatemala

Almeida, Rita; Viollaz, Mariana - 2022

With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …

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Violence, development and migration waves : evidence from Central American child migrant apprehensions

Clemens, Michael A. - 2017

A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …

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Training, job satisfaction and workplace performance in Britain : evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - 2008

This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...

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Trade as a wage disciplining device

Persyn, Damiaan (contributor) - 2008

We estimate how trade openness affects the relationship between wages, labour productivity and foreign wages using sector-level time series for several EU member states. In some countries wages became less responsive to foreign wages as trade costs declined. We show this counter-intuitive result...

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Does the growth process discriminate against older workers?

Langot, François (contributor); … - 2008

This paper seeks to gain insights on the relationship between growth and unemployment, when considering heterogeneous agents in terms of age. We introduce life cycle features in the endogenous job destruction framework à la Mortensen and Pissarides (1998). We show that, under the assumption of...

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Works councils, labor productivity and plant heterogeneity : evidence from quantile regressions

Wagner, Joachim; Addison, John T.; Schnabel, Claus; … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

Using quantile regressions and a rich cross section data set for German manufacturing plants, this paper reports that the impact of works councils on labor productivity varies along the conditional distribution of value added per employee. It emerges that the positive and statistically...

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The effects of marginal employment on subsequent labour market outcomes

Böheim, René - 2006

We analyse the consequences of starting a wage subsidised job, "marginal employment", for unemployed workers. Marginal employment is a type of wage subsidy paid to unemployed workers and they do not lose their unemployment benefits if the wage is below a certain threshold. We ask if the...

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Identification of search models with initial condition problems

Barlevy, Gadi (contributor); … - 2006

This paper extends previous work on the identification of search models in which observed worker productivity is imperfectly observed. In particular, it establishes that these models remain identified even when employment histories are left-censored (i.e. we do not get to follow workers from...

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