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Firms and labor in times of violence : evidence from the Mexican drug war
Utar, Hâle - 2022
This paper examines how firms in an emerging economy are affected by violence due to drug trafficking. Employing rich longitudinal plant-level data covering all of Mexico from 2005–2010, and using an instrumental variable strategy that exploits plausibly exogenous spatiotemporal variation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013170284
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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903965
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Engineers, innovative capacity and development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2014
Using newly collected national and sub-national data and historical case studies, this paper argues that differences in innovative capacity, captured by the density of engineers at the dawn of the Second Industrial Revolution, are important to explaining present income differences, and, in...
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Industry-wide work rules and productivity : evidence from Argentine union contract data
Lamarche, Carlos - 2013
In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms and unions at low levels of organization. The policy weakened the industry-wide collective bargaining system, which sets working conditions for all firms in an industry. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199012
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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458981
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Temperature effects on productivity and factor reallocation : evidence from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants
Zhang, Peng; Deschênes, Olivier; Meng, Kyle C.; Zhang, … - 2017
This paper uses detailed production data from a half million Chinese manufacturing plants over 1998-2007 to estimate … adaptation were to occur, we project that climate change will reduce Chinese manufacturing output annually by 12%, equivalent to … manufacturing sector produces 32% of national GDP and supplies 12% of global exports. …
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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
early life interventions, intergenerational mobility, parental investments, fertility, health care provisionAAn important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input...
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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008779126
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Evolution of gender wage gaps in latin america at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to "new century, old disparities"
Ñopo, Hugo; Hoyos, Alejandro - 2010
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...
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Teachers' salaries in Latin America : how much are they (under or over) paid?
Mizala, Alejandra; Ñopo, Hugo - 2011
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching...
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