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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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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. Their aim is to assess the dynamics of conflict and changes from its author's scientific output. A context of conflicts...
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"Social Capital of Old People on the Example of Bialystok Residents" is a book based on theoretical and empirical study, which presents an issue of diagnosing and using of old people social capital in the local and regional development processes. This issue is significant because of the threats...
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While numerous Western countries first experienced cultural rationalization, next economic modernization, and then faced the challenges of population aging and pension policy reform, both Latin America and China, in contrast, are dealing with these challenges in the context of much less...
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This brief reviews two rounds of pension reforms in ten Latin American countries to determine whether they are moving away from individual retirement accounts (IRAs). Although the idea is provocative, we conclude that the notion of “moving away from IRAs” is insufficient to characterize the...
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emerging markets such as Brazil, India, China, South Africa and Mexico, which are not only top recipients of foreign capital … been the eruption of world-class Latin multinationals (or multilatinas) from Mexico and Brazil, in particular, following …
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This article reassesses the classic period of Import-Substituting Industrialisation (ISI) in Brazil between 1945 and … industries and firms. We also found that Brazil’s labour productivity growth lagged behind what was achieved in other …
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Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but … achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique of Brazil’s strategy in terms of economic statecraft; reflect on … enhance Brazil’s leadership role at the regional and global levels. It would involve the Brazilian government and business …
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Theoretical and empirical literature have focused on supply factors when studying economic growth determinants. The present work analyzes demand factors as determinants of the Bolivian economic growth between 1953-2002 using framework introduced by Thirlwall (1979). According to cointegration...
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