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Unemployment assistance and transition to employment in Argentina

Iturriza, Ana; Bedi, Arjun S.; Sparrow, Robert - 2008

In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …

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Returns to education and macroeconomic shocks: evidence from Argentina

López Bóo, Florencia - 2010

Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …

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Is informal sector work an alternative to workfare benefits? The case of pre-program expansion and economic crisis

Khamis, Melanie - 2009

Limited availability of workfare programs and unemployment insurance and a large informal sector are features of the Argentine labor market at the outset of the 2001 economic crisis. This paper tests the hypothesis whether informal work is an alternative to workfare participation before a...

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The weight of the crisis: Evidence from newborns in Argentina

Bozzoli, Carlos; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - 2010

Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …

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Economic crises, maternal and infant mortality, low birth weight and enrollment rates: Evidence from Argentina's downturns

Cruces, Guillermo; Glüzmann, Pablo; Calva López, Luis … - 2011

This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …

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Recent advances in the economics of individual subjective well-being

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2010

stimulus to the discourse on individual happiness. Recently this research has also been linked to economics where reported … provides a new possibility for the complementary testing of theories across fields in economics. Third, we inquire how the … insights gained from the study of individual happiness in economics affect public policy. …

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A decade of editing the European economic review

Eckstein, Zvi; Gal-Or, Esther; Gylfason, Thorvaldur; … - 2011

This story describes the circumstances that led to all five of us starting as editors at the same time, the unexpected things we have found, the unanticipated reactions we have encountered, how we worked as an editorial team, the central role of the editorial office manager, how we managed to...

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The Tragedy of Clientelism: Opting Children Out

Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - 2017

Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...

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No education, no good jobs? Evidence on the relationship between education and labor market segmentation

Pagés, Carmen; Stampini, Marco - 2007

This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....

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Growth, volatility and political instability: non-linear time-series evidence for Argentina, 1896 - 2000

Campos, Nauro F.; Karanasos, Menelaos G. - 2007

time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show that while assassinations and strikes (what we call informal …

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