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tests this assumption. It compares the impact of each type of support on employment and the type of employment measured by … the wages paid by firms to their employees. To control for self-selection into the program, propensity score matching and …-related activities, the program was able to create more and better jobs. The effect on wages was also found to be higher when supporting …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...
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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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The aim of this paper is to analyze the relationship between innovation and employment, in terms of both its quantity … and quality, in Uruguay. The effect of product and process innovation on employment growth and on employment composition …. sourcing technology externally. The results revealed that product innovation is associated with employment growth. There is …
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This paper provides evidence about the relationship between innovation and employment in Argentina. In particular, it … quantifies the impact of different types of innovations (process or product innovations) on employment growth and skill … composition (skilled-unskilled labor) and the impact of different innovation strategies (buy or make) on employment growth, and …
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and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years. Our overall conclusions are that … process innovation is generally not found to be a relevant determinant of employment growth, and that product innovation is … usually positively associated with an expansion in employment. These results seem to be similar regardless of firm size and …
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The employment impact of innovation in the heterogeneous universe of services was studied using data from the 2004 …-2009 Uruguayan service innovation surveys. The empirical evidence shows that the impact of product innovation on employment is … impact on employment, while the combined strategy of acquiring technology outside the firm and producing it in-house has …
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O tema "Requalificação de Áreas Urbanas" se apresenta como um tema emergente na carteira Procidades em execução até 2011, contando com apenas 3.5% dos investimentos. Apesar de sua importância para as cidades brasileiras, que possuem muitas áreas urbanas consolidadas em estágio de...
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En Centroamérica las distancias son cortas y los volúmenes de carga son pequeños para consolidar una red densa de transporte marítimo de corta distancia. Además, no existe una red ferroviaria transnacional. Esto otorga al transporte automotor de carga (TAC) un rol clave en el transporte...
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This study focuses on identifying the basic logistics capabilities in Belize, Central America and the Dominican Republic. It concentrates on the ports and sea network, taking into consideration intermodal networks involving both land and sea components together with the major performance drivers...
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