Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 596
Cover Image
The African Entrepreneurial Ecosystem Index: Conceptual, Methodological and Empirical Flaws and the Way Forward
Naudé, Wim - 2024
with the ideas of entrepreneurship as being place dependent and that ecosystem measures should be concerned with what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045459
Cover Image
Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
family long-term care (LTC) and female labor supply in four Latin American countries. Time-use survey data from Chile …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012322591
Cover Image
School Starting Age and the Impact on School Admission
Cáceres-Delpiano, Julio; Giolito, Eugenio - 2023
This study employs Chilean administrative data to investigate the impact of School Starting Age (SSA) on the characteristics of students' initial enrolled schools. Employing minimum age requirements and an RD-design to mitigate endogeneity concerns, we identify benefits linked to commencing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377278
Cover Image
Unions, wage gaps, and wage dispersion: New evidence from the Americas
Rios-Avila, Fernando; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2012
countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287658
Cover Image
Becoming an entrepreneur
Ñopo, Hugo; Valenzuela, Patricio - 2007
employment to entrepreneurship (self-employment and leadership of micro-enterprises). By means of a difference-in-differences non … employment to entrepreneurship are positive, statistically significant and financially substantial. Even more, the results are … salaried jobs to entrepreneurship and lower losses on the reverse switch. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268373
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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
Cover Image
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