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Workers' Health in Latin America: An Econometric Analysis of Work-Related Injuries
Giuffrida, Antonio; Iunes, Roberto F.; Macías, Héctor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001
Occupational health is increasingly recognized as an important public health issue in Latin American and the Caribbean … health risk associated with occupational hazard in Mexico. This analysis sheds light on the relationships between the …
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Elderly Health and Salaries in the Mexican Labor Market
Parker, Susan W. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
evaluate the impact of health on the income of working elderly individuals. The results find that health measures have a strong …The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the determinants of elderly health in the context of Mexico as a … developing country and the relationship between health indicators and earnings in the labor market. The authors analyze the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944171
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Sociómetro Title: Sociómetro
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 1990
, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …
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Nutrition, Income Instability and Quality of Life: Determinants and Differential Patterns across Members within the Household
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Maro, Vincenzo Di; Meija, Carolina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …
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Does a Mature AIDS Epidemic Threaten Growth?
Cuesta, José A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
This paper models the impact on economic growth of HIV/AIDS when the epidemic is in a mature phase, in contrast with previous studies focused on periods of expansion, as in African countries. Simulations for Honduras, the epicenter of the epidemic in Central America, show that AIDS is not likely...
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Financing Universal Social Security in Mexico
Anton, Arturo; Trillo, Fausto Hernández - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011
The proposal by Levy (2008) whereby a universal social insurance (USI) scheme is guaranteed to all workers, regardless of formality status, aims at abolishing the current contributory social insurance system and financing social insurance through value-added taxes instead (henceforth, the social...
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Female Bargaining Power and Parental Labour Supply
Novella, Rafael; Ripani, Laura; Cruces, Guillermo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Recent empirical evidence has indicated that Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) do not have an aggregate effect on adult labour supply, however little attention has been paid to the role of other intrahousehold dynamics. This paper examines how the bargaining power structure of households affects...
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The Growth of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America and the Caribbean: Did They Go Too Far?
Stampini, Marco; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) are an endogenous innovation from Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) that aims to reduce current poverty while developing the human capital of the next generation, in the attempt to break the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Pioneered in Brazil and...
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Las externalidades de los programas de transferencias condicionadas sobre el crimen: El caso de Familias en Acción en Bogotá
Camacho, Adriana; Mejía, Daniel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
En este trabajo estudiamos los efectos indirectos del mayor programa de transferencias condicionadas (PTC) de Colombia, Familias en Acción, sobre los niveles de criminalidad en el área urbana de la ciudad de Bogotá. Para realizar este estudio combinamos las siguientes dos fuentes de...
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Are Conditional Cash Transfers Associated with Lower Labor Supply?: Evidence from Mexico's Oportunidades Over the Period 2000-2010
Bosch, Mariano; Stampini, Marco; Bedoya, Guadalupe - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper analyzes the correlation between the expansion of the Mexican Conditional Cash Transfer program Oportunidades and the evolution of the labor market over the period 2000-10. We find no evidence of perverse effects. Program expansion was not associated with drops in either labor force...
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