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Do Remittances Have a Flip Side? A General Equilibrium Analysis of Remittances, Labor Supply Responses, and Policy Options for Jamaica
Bussolo, Maurizio; Medvedev, Denis - 2012
Econometric analysis has established a negative relationship between labor supply and remittances in Jamaica. The authors incorporate this ex-post evidence in a general equilibrium model to investigate economywide effects of increased remittance inflows. In this model, remittances reduce labor...
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The Patterns and Determinants of Household Welfare Growth in Jordan : 2002-2010
Mansour, Wael - 2013
Jordan's economic growth in the past decade has translated into a significant rise in household consumption and a … disparities. Using official household expenditure surveys for 2002, 2008, and 2010, this paper analyzes the patterns and … determinants of household welfare growth and examines the extent to which economic growth has been inclusive of the more vulnerable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012557131
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On Gender and Growth : The Role of Intergenerational Health Externalities and Women???s Occupational Constraints
Ag??nor, Pierre-Richard; Canuto, Otaviano; da Silva, … - 2012
This paper studies the growth effects of externalities associated with intergenerational health transmission, health persistence, and women's occupational constraints-- with particular emphasis on the role of access to infrastructure. The first part provides a review of the evidence on these...
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Gender Equality, Poverty and Economic Growth
Morrison, Andrew; Raju, Dhushyanth; Sinha, Nistha - 2012
household level. The paper also summarizes evidence from studies examining the relationship between gender equality and poverty …
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The Home as Factory Floor : Employment and Remuneration of Home-Based Workers
Cunningham, Wendy; Gomez, Carlos Ramos - 2013
status, not the presence of children, suggesting that simply being the primary caregiver in the household, regardless of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559730
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Analyzing the Dynamics of School Dropout in Upper Secondary Education in Latin America
Bentaouet Kattan, Raja; Székely, Miguel - 2015
belonging to a birth cohort, by constructing and analyzing a synthetic data base of household survey data from 18 countries. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012564380
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Governance in State-Owned Enterprises Revisited : The Cases of Water and Electricity in Latin America and the Caribbean
Andr??s, Luis Alberto; Guasch, Jos?? Luis; L??pez … - 2012
This paper studies the governance structure of state-owned enterprises in the water and electricity sectors of Latin America and the Caribbean. Through a unique dataset, the paper compares 44 leading state companies of the region based on an aggregate measure of corporate governance and six...
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Social Protection in Latin America : Achievements and Limitations
Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Robalino, David - 2012
Social protection systems in Latin America have been transformed in the past two decades. Until the 1980s, those who were not covered by the social security arrangements available primarily in the urban formal sector received little public assistance beyond universal subsidies for some food or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551524
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Infrastructure in Latin America
Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2012
An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century, the retrenchment of Latin America's public sector from its dominant position in the provision of infrastructure, and...
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Infrastructure in Latin America : Dataset
Calder??n, C??sar; Serv??n, Luis - 2012
An adequate supply of infrastructure services has long been viewed by both academics and policy makers as a key ingredient for economic development. Over the past quarter-century, the retrenchment of Latin America's public sector from its dominant position in the provision of infrastructure, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012551735