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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. One major concern is the absence of reliable data on its magnitude and economic consequences. The first part of the paper presents the official statistics on workplace...
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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 … Empleo. The paper analyzes the impact of the program on traditional labor market outcomes and on outcomes related to youth … behavior and life style, expectations about the future and socio-emotional skills. In terms of labor market outcomes, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010654034
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Inflation and Labor Market Flexibility: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Loboguerrero, Ana María; Panizza, Ugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show …Inflation can grease the wheels of the labor market by relaxing downward wage rigidity but it can also increase … that in industrial countries with highly regulated labor markets, the grease effect of inflation dominates the sand effect …
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Institutional Enforcement, Labor-Market Rigidities, and Economic Performance
Calderón, César; León, Gianmarco; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2006
This paper study the issue of institutional enforcement of regulations by focusing on labor-market policies and their … potential link to economic performance. It test the different impacts of enforceable and non-enforceable labor regulations by … proxying non-enforceable labor rigidity measures using data on conventions from the International Labor Organization (ILO). It …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943977
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Employment Protection and Gross Job Flows: A Differences-in-Differences Approach
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Micco, Alejandro - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This paper examines the effect of employment protection regulation on gross job flows in a sample of developed and … higher labor flexibility. These effects occur within the sample of developed and developing countries and are very large in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944367
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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2012 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la Evaluabilidad de los Proyectos del Banco 2012
Inter-American Development Bank; Office of Evaluation … - 2013
In 2011 OVE began using the DEM and the self-evaluation system as a way to assess the evaluability of the Bank's portfolio by validating the DEMs of a sample of projects. The first exercise was used as pilot to set the standards OVE would use and to inform the Board and Management of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672616
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2011 Evaluability Review of Bank Projects Title: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2012
During the last decade, the IDB has strongly promoted an agenda to increase its capacity to report on results, with a particular focus on project evaluability. The first pilot exercise to validate the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) of randomly selected projects began in October 2011. The...
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A Decade of Development Thinking
Lora, Eduardo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Panizza, Ugo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
The Research Department of the IDB (RES) performs innovative, comparative research on the development issues of greatest concern to the region today. It generates a wide variety of products based on this research and disseminates them to three principal audiences: the Bank, policymakers and the...
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Approach Paper: Evaluability Review of Bank Projects 2011 Title: Documento de enfoque: Revisión de la evaluabilidad de los proyectos del Banco de 2011
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2011
Given the contributions of the Development Effectiveness Matrix (DEM) and the self-evaluation system of evaluability, OVE can now move away from a wholly separate system of reviewing project evaluability (as was done in 2001, 2005, and 2009). OVE can move towards a system of continuous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674047
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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 … mitigate the destruction of jobs but had no effect on job creation or capital dynamics. The changes in the use of labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943857