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, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across … family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …
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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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This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent …
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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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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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using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …
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We analyze wage differentials mobility between the formal and informal sector in urban Mexico, using panel data on five … quarters drawn from Mexico?s Urban Employment Survey. We develop a dynamic random effects panel data model. It consists of two …
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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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employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use …-employment carries a premium in Mexico. In contrast, the upper-tier segment is marginal in South Africa, and informal workers, both … small at all levels in Brazil. …
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