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with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to …
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using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …
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In 2001-02, Argentina experienced a wrenching economic crisis. Plan Jefes, implemented in May 2002, was Argentina …
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Returns to schooling in urban Argentina increased from 1992 to 2003, a period of economic reforms and macroeconomic …
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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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Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …
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This study investigates the impact of recent crises in Argentina (including the severe downturn of 2001-2002) on health …
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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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economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in … the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three countries. As for …
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investigation. We then compare two independent sources of individual-level wage information from Mexico - firms' wage reports to the …
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