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How has labor demand been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic? : evidence from job ads in Mexico

Campos Vázquez, Raymundo M.; Esquivel, Gerardo; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-42

There is a concern among social scientists and policymakers that the COVID-19 crisis might permanently change the nature of work. We study how labor demand in Mexico has been affected during the pandemic by web scraping job ads from a leading job search website. As in the U.S., the number of...

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Sex-ratios and work in Latin American households : evidence from Mexico, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, and Chile

Campaña, Juan Carlos; Gimenez-Nadal, José Ignacio; … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 30 (2021), pp. 1-25

We analyze the relationship between sex-ratios in the region of residence, and the time devoted to paid and unpaid work by couples in Mexico (2002, 2009, 2014), Peru (2010), Ecuador (2012), Colombia (2012, 2017) and Chile (2015). We find that sex-ratios are negatively related to the time devoted...

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The role of innovation in employment growth, skill demand, and wages : evidence from Ecuador

Rochina Barrachina, María E.; Rodríguez-Moreno, Jorge … - In: Latin American economic review : LAER ; official … 32 (2023), pp. 1-30

This study's main objective is assessing the effects of innovation on firms' employment growth. Further, we aimed to … employment and contributes to the improvement of job quality. Specifically, product and marketing innovations emerge as important … tools for increasing employment in Ecuador. Moreover, product innovation favors high-skilled over low-skilled work- ers …

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