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SME policy and firms' productivity in Latin America
Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - 2009
American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271309
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Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2004
This paper examines the impact on TFP of North-South trade-related technology diffusion in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). North-South R&D flows are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and input-output relations in the South. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261795
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North-South trade-related technology diffusion: Virtuous growth cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2010
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269768
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The nature of occupational unemployment rates in the United States: hysteresis or structural?
Candelon, Bertrand; Dupuy, Arnaud; Gil-Alana, Luis - 2008
This paper provides new evidence on the nature of occupational differences in unemployment dynamics, which is relevant for the debate between the structural or hysteresis hypotheses. We develop a procedure that permits us to test for the presence of a structural break at unknown date. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268561
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Distribution and Growth in an Economy with Limited Needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262477
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Privatization discontent and its determinants: evidence from Latin America
Checchi, Daniele; Florio, Massimo; Carrera, Jorge - 2005
Privatization policy faces increasing popular opposition in Latin America. We test for the determinants of this discontent. We use the results of Latinobarometro (2002), a survey of a representative sample of 18522 individuals in 17 countries as our dependent variable of perception, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010267576
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Foreign direct investment and structural reforms: evidence from Eastern Europe and Latin America
Campos, Nauro F.; Kinoshita, Yuko - 2008
This paper investigates the role of structural reforms - privatization, financial reform and trade liberalization as determinants of FDI inflows based on newly constructed dataset on structural reforms for 19 Latin American and 25 Eastern European countries between 1989 and 2004. Our main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268588
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Fertility changes in Latin America in the context of economic uncertainty
Adsera, Alicia; Menendez, Alicia - 2009
We explore the relation between fertility and the business cycle in Latin American countries taking advantage of the existing cross-country and within-country differences in both fertility and macroeconomic conditions. First, we use a panel of 18 nations for over 45 years to study how different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269027
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The dynamics of women's labour supply in developing countries
Bhalotra, Sonia; Umaña-Aponte, Marcela - 2010
This paper investigates cyclicality in women's labour supply motivated by the hypothesis that it contributes to smoothing household consumption in environments characterized by income volatility. We use comparable individual data on about 1.1 million women in 63 developing and transition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269754
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Schooling, cognitive skills, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric Alan; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009
Economic development in Latin America has trailed most other world regions over the past four decades despite its relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle can be resolved by considering the actual learning as expressed in tests of cognitive skills, on which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274178