Este artículo es presentado como una contribución para entender mejor los logros y limitaciones relacionados con el estilo de desarrollo que Costa Rica ha promovido en las últimas dos décadas. El estudio se divide en seis secciones: la primera es una introducción que presenta la transición...

This article is a result from a broader study on the patterns of concentration and evolution of the process of industrial localization and the labor market in the Great MetropolitanArea of Costa Rica (GAM). This study is part of the research program on regionaleconomics that the Institute of...

Siendo hoy en día tanto la inflación como la devaluación de las monedas una constante en todas las economías mundiales, y las “potencias†o economías desarrolladas no se escapan de ello aún cuando las tasas sean “de un dígitoâ€, es importante poder tomar en cuenta sus...

It is not possible to predict the future of evaluation. However, some well-founded assumptions can be made as to how evaluation is likely to develop on the basis of the current situation and the processes of social change in the future.First, a series of indicators is used to show that...

Complex systems ruled by principles such as self-organization, interaction,interdependence, back-feeding, initial conditions sensitivity and continuous emergenceand adaptation, is a new theoretical approach, still not very used to analyze space issues ofproduction organization and/or market...

The article´s main goal is to study the relationship between subjective perception of own economic situation and objective measures of economic well-being –sources of income, home ownership, education level, and informal family transfers– among the elderly in two Latin American...

ABSTRACTThis article analyzes the Costa Rican students identified as “resilient†in the PISA 2009evaluation; and compares them to their peers that, despite having similar socioeconomicbackground, obtained poorer results in this test. The article shows that differences inperformance may...

The objective of this paper is to provide the statistician with a method for the challenging task of deciding whether a given data set might have been invented in a fraudulent way or appearing authentic. This is done not by examining the numbers themselves, but surprisingly, rather by...

A pseudo-panel approach is used to estimate the returns to schooling (RTS) in Costa Rica. Thisapproach ameliorates the “ability†bias due to the correlation between the level of education and nonobservablecharacteristics of the individual.We found that RTS are higher for older...

Expectations formation of future output fluctuations as a factor for explaining CostaRican business cycle is the main subject addressed in this paper. The main contributionof this research is the proposition of an econometric model for estimating the effect thatan increase in the next quarter...