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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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The authors describe the evolution of relative wages in five Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, Chile … relative abundance in all of the countries except Brazil. This is strong evidence of increases in the demand for skilled …
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, and female formal, and informal sector participation during the economic reform period in Argentina, Brazil, and Costa … before reforms (1988 for Argentina, 1989 for Brazil, and Costa Rica), and a year after reforms implementation (1997 for … Argentina, 1995 for Brazil and Costa Rica). Although women continued to be more likely than men to work in the informal wage …
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. Drawing on the recent experience of four large federal countries in Latin America-Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico … downturn constitutes a contingent liability for the central government. Argentina's stabilizing rule contributed to fiscal and …
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make a time-consistent commitment for fiscal prudence. It examines the cases of Brazil, Colombia, Peru, and Argentina, as …
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-such as small businesses-unserved. The authors examine this issue. Using bank-level data for Argentina, Chile, Colombia, and …
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liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …
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The authors study the dynamics of three developing country labor markets using recent advances in the estimation of continuous time Markov processes. They first examine the flows of workers among five states: three types of paid labor, unemployment, and out of the labor force. The authors find a...
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This paper relaxes some key assumptions in the probabilistic approach to fiscal sustainability. First, the authors identify structural breaks over the sample period used to estimate the covariance matrix of the shocks to the debt ratios. Second, the assumption of normality of the shocks is...
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using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …
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