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An Economic Analysis of Unemployment in Trinidad and Tobago

Downes, Andrew S. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

. Although there are variations in the measurement of unemployment, official estimates obtained from labor force surveys indicate …

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Labor Market Regulations and Income Inequality: Evidence for a Panel of Countries

Calderón, César; Valdés, Rodrigo; Chong, Alberto E. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This paper presents evidence on the impact of labor regulations on income inequality using two recently published databases on labor institutions and outcomes (Rama and Artecona, 2002; Botero, Djankov, La Porta, López-de-Silanes and Shleifer, 2003) and different cross-section and panel data...

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Unemployment Insurance: Case Studies and Lessons for Latin America and the Caribbean

Mazza, Jacqueline - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This study examines unemployment insurance (UI) for its potential application and implications for Latin American and the Caribbean economies. It surveys current experience with unemployment insurance programs through case studies and draws lessons learned in particular for the Latin American...

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The Transition of the Social Policies in Brazil since the Old Paradigm towards the Unique Register Title: La Transición en las Políticas Sociales en Brasil: Del Antiguo Paradigma a...

Ramos, Carlos Alberto; Lobato, Ana Lucia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

families placed under the poverty line.Abstract: Este documento fue comisionado por la Red de Reducción de la Pobreza y …

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Does Inequality Breed Altruism or Selfishness? Gauging Individuals' Predispositions towards Redistributive Schemes

Machado, Fabiana Velasques de Paula - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

. Contrary to what is commonly assumed, inequality seems to breed altruism among the rich regarding the quintessential poverty …

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On the Distributive Costs of Drug-Related Homicides

Ajzenman, Nicolás; Galiani, Sebastián; Seira, Enrique - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

There are few reliable estimates of the effects of violence on economic outcomes. This study exploits the manifold increase in homicides in 2008-2011 in Mexico resulting from its war on organized drug traffickers to estimate the effect of drug-related homicides on housing prices. Using an...

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Does Latin American and Caribbean Unemployment Depend on Asian Labor Standards?

Belser, Patrick - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998

Many Latin American nations have recently implemented liberal trade regimes, often as part of a larger set of market-oriented reforms, and have abandoned their industrialization policies based on import substitution. In the 1980s, Chile, Mexico, and Bolivia were among the continent's first...

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What Makes Reforms Likely?: Timing and Sequencing of Structural Reforms in Latin America

Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The wave of structural reforms in Latin America and elsewhere has stimulated the development of a wide body of theoretical literature on the political economy of reform, i.e., the study of the political constraints that condition the timing, speed and sequencing of reforms. This paper tests some...

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Intercontinental Evidence on Socioeconomic Status and Early Childhood: Cognitive Skills: Is Latin America Different?

Lopez Boo, Florencia - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development- as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality, but with Somewhat Lower Poverty

Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper processes 76 household surveys from 17 Latin American countries to document changes in poverty and …. Poverty declined in 10 or 11 of the 17 countries for which household surveys are available to us, depending on the poverty … measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction. …

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