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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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spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008514870
in Bolivia to study the intra-household income allocation process towards children's educational expenditure by ethnicity …
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proliferation of protected areas in Bolivia over the past several decades has prompted interest in understanding their impacts on … poverty. Using rich biophysical and socioeconomic data from Bolivia we find that municipalities with at least 10% of their … that Bolivia's protected areas were associated with poverty reduction are similar to previous studies, our underlying …
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-municipal governments in Bolivia, and it presents a randomized field experiment designed to improve public service delivery by promoting …
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countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
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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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Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …
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