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The impact of robots in Latin America: Evidence from local labor markets

Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023

We study the effect of robots on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, the major robot users in Latin America, during the period 2004{2016. We exploit spatial and time variations in exposure to robots arising from initial differences in industry specialization across geographic...

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Costs and benefits of trade shocks: Evidence from Chilean local labor markets

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

We study Chile's labor market responses to trade shocks during 1996-2006, exploiting spatial and time variations in trade exposure arising from initial differences in industry specialization across local labor markets and the evolution of shocks across industries. We take advantage of China's...

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Robots, exports and top income inequality: Evidence for the U.S.

César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; Garriga, Pablo - 2022

The last decades have witnessed a revolution in manufacturing production characterized by increasing technology adoption and a strong expansion of international trade. Simultaneously, the income distribution has exhibited both polarization and concentration among the richest. Combining datasets...

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The short-term labor market impact of Venezuelan immigration in Peru

Vera, Celia P.; Jiménez, Bruno - 2022

Peru is the second-largest recipient of Venezuelans worldwide. We combine newly available data on Venezuelans living in Peru and the Peruvian Household Survey to assess the impact of Venezuelan migration on natives' wages and employment. The initial regression analysis exploits the variation in...

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The efficacy of large-scale affirmative action at elite universities

Machado, Cecilia; Reyes, Germán; Riehl, Evan - 2023

We study the effects of affirmative action at an elite Brazilian university that adopted race- and income-based quotas for 45 percent of its admission slots. We link admission records to national employer-employee data to examine how the policy affected the careers of both its targeted...

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Carrera versus familia: Las consecuencias del embarazo adolescente que enfrentan las jóvenes bolivianas

Zamora Flores, María del Mar - 2021

Adolescent pregnancy is a latent event in the world, especially in developing countries, and it has consequences of great importance for the young women who face it. This work seeks to demonstrate these consequences in the career of Bolivian women who, although they are not between 15 and 19...

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Productividad y felicidad: ¿las personas más productivas son más felices?

Aliaga, Francisco Javier; Gantier Mita, Marcelo; … - 2015

correlation between happiness and productivity of workers. However, some authors argue that the causality between the two … variables can go in both ways. The following paper analyzes the shape in which a increment of productivity self-declared of …-sectional analysis. To this end three variables are analyzed, the first consists in levels of productivity self-reported by individuals …

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The COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries: The labor supply impact by gender

Viollaz, Mariana; Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Flabbim, Luca; … - 2022

We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...

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Post-reform trends in wage inequality: The case of urban Bolivia

Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - 2002

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends...

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El Impacto de un Programa Social sobre la Informalidad Laboral: El Caso de la AUH en Argentina

Garganta, Santiago; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2012

El programa de Asignación Universal por Hijo en Argentina extiende a los desocupados y trabajadores informales un beneficio antes limitado a los empleados formales. Esta extensión podría modificar los incentivos laborales, estimulando una menor participación en el sector formal respecto de...

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