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The Costs of Favoritism : Is Politically-Driven Aid Less Effective?
Dreher, Axel - 2010
World Bank projects and generally find that projects that are potentially politically motivated – such as those granted to … governments holding a non-permanent seat on the United Nations Security Council or an Executive Directorship at the World Bank … Council members with higher short-term debt, however, a negative quality rating is more likely. So we find evidence that World …
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China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2011
world have altered the transmission mechanism of international business cycles to Latin America. Evidence based on a Global … world shows that the long-term impact of a China GDP shock on the typical Latin American economy has increased by three … associated with a deceleration in China's economic growth in the future for both Latin America and the rest of the world economy …
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Unemployment Insurance Savings Accounts in Latin America : Overview and Assessment
Ferrer, Ana M. - 2011
The unemployment protection systems that exist in most Latin American economies are generally considered inadequate in terms of providing insurance to workers. They may also encourage stratified labor markets and impose barriers to the employee's mobility and the firm's adjustment to changing...
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America
Cuesta, Jose - 2011
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional notion of income mobility as well as for...
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Risk Attitudes and Well-Being in Latin America
Cárdenas, Juan-Camilo - 2010
A common premise in both the theoretical and policy literatures on development is that people remain poor because they are too impatient to save and too risk averse to take the sort of chances needed to accumulate wealth. The empirical literature, however, suggests that this assumption is far...
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Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century : An Addendum to 'New Century, Old Disparities'
Ñopo, Hugo - 2010
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2010) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...
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New Century, Old Disparities : Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
Ñopo, Hugo - 2010
This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
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North-South Trade-Related Technology Diffusion : Virtuous Growth Cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice - 2012
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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Teachers' Salaries in Latin America : How Much are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Mizala, Alejandra - 2011
This paper documents the extent to which teachers are underpaid vis-à-vis workers in other professional and technical occupations in Latin America circa 2007. These labor earnings differences, attributed to observable socio-demographic and job characteristics, are assessed using a matching...
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Labor Market Institutions and Informality in Transition and Latin American Countries
Lehmann, Hartmut - 2012
(transition countries) and the World Bank (LAC countries). We find that a more regulated labor market (higher EPL) increases the …
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