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Labour Market Reforms and Unemployment: Lessons from the Experience of the OECD Countries

Scarpetta, Stefano - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

The OECD labor market has undergone major changes over the past two decades. The most evident of these changes is the rise in the number of job-seekers. In 1997, there were more than 35 million people unemployed in the OECD area as a whole, some 6 million more than in the mid-1980s and almost 25...

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Barbados: Meeting the Challenge of Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Rojas-Suárez, Liliana; Poon, Auliana; Thomas, Desmond; … - Inter-American Development Bank

The material within these pages shows that Barbados, a Caribbean country with just over a quarter of a million people, embodies many of the classic vulnerabilities of an island with a small open economy, yet aspires to developed-country status, and is already well advanced on the road to...

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The Economic Effects of Unions in Latin America: Their Impact on Wages and the Economic Performance of Firms in Uruguay

Cassoni, Adriana; Labadie, Gastón J.; Fachola, Gabriela - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

employment and promotes investment due to firms substituting labor by capital. Unions tend to organize in those plants with …

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Employment and Taxes in Latin America: An Empirical Study of the Effects of Payroll, Corporate Income and Value-Added Taxes on Labor Outcomes

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor … depend on several aspects of labor and tax institutions. Payroll taxes reduce employment and increase labor costs when their … employment of medium- and high-education workers. …

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Effects of Innovation on Employment in Latin America

Crespi, Gustavo; Tacsir, Ezequiel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth and composition in Argentina …. (1998), employment growth is related to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and … with employment growth at the firm level. No evidence of displacement effects due to the introduction of product …

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Innovation Strategies and Employment in Latin American Firms

Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This study examines the impact of innovation strategies on employment growth in four Latin American countries … model proposed by Harrison et al. (2008), we relate employment to three innovation strategies: make only (R&D), buy only … employment; the "make and buy" strategy comes in second. Similar results are found for small firms. These results highlight the …

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Investment Climate and Employment Growth: The Impact of Access to Finance, Corruption and Regulations across Firms

Aterido, Reyes; Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Pagés-Serra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

finance and business regulations this occurs by reducing the employment growth of all firms, particularly micro and small … firms. On the other hand, corruption and poor access to infrastructure reduce employment growth by affecting the growth of …

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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Employment, Capital, and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector

Casacuberta, Carlos; Fachola, Gabriela; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the Uruguayan manufacturing sector. Uruguay opened its economy in the presence of -at least initially- strong unions and structurally different industry concentration levels. Higher...

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Does the Stopler-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages?: The Linkage between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries

Shinkai, Naoko - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

Stolper-Samuelson (SS) and Specific-Factors (SF) versions make opposite predictions about the correlation between prices and wages of certain types of workers (specific factors in industries) when they are not used intensively. The analysis in this paper provides evidence that may allow one to...

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Life Skills, Employability and Training for Disadvantage Youth: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation Design

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Ripani, Laura; Taboada, Bibiana; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

monthly earnings among those employed. However, there are no overall impacts on employment rates. Regarding non-labor market … employment, the practical significance of the impacts is unclear, as there is only weak evidence that the life skills measures …

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