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This article examines the effect of social networks by investigating how mobilizing family, friendship or kindship ties in job searches affects the quality of employment (QoE) using a mixed approach. Drawing from socioeconomic literature on the segmented labor market, the authors propose an...
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than the average of Colombia. Moreover, we found periods of economic boom between 1800 and 1840, 1860 and 1880, and 1905 …
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The changes that are taking place recently in the Brazilian economy raise some questions about its future. The goal of this paper is to analyze the differences in the productive structure in the Brazilian economy and five macro regions for the years of 1985, 1990, and 1995, using some...
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This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil’s productive structure through the estimation of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an important tool for the study of the regional productive...
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This article proposes a reading of the armed conflict from an evolutionary design that takes into account the concept of private protection agencies in the works of Schelling / Nozick / Gambetta. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A...
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Colombia is a middle-income country but with a human development constantly threatened by insecurity. This paper … EADS-CASA in Colombia. Compare Malaysia, the Colombian case exemplifies how offset might be an instrument of development …, these agreements can be a good example. The offset agreements executed in Colombia are assessed with high marks in relevance …
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model calibrated for Colombia. The model is used to assess the response of the economy to exogenous shocks in productivity …, interest rates and fiscal policy. The standard RBC model is a good tool to replicate the stylized facts found for Colombia …
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The paper aims to describe the evolution part of the economy and power to tax in Colombia. It also explains the failure … political economy have influenced the evolution of the state. Describes why fiscal conditions in Colombia have affected …
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imbalances in public policy. Otherwise, in Colombia there has been no welfare state but to state contrasts with The minimal state …
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Coca eradication has been aggressively pursued by the Colombian government to reduce the amount of land that agricultural households in the Andean country devote to this illegal crop. However, little work has been done to assess the causal effect of the policy on land allocation decisions. I use...
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