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An economical approach to estimate a benchmark capital stock: An optimal consistency method

Albala-Bertrand, Jose Miguel - 2003

There are alternative methods of estimating capital stock for a benchmark year. However, these methods are costly and time-consuming, requiring the gathering of much basic information as well as the use of some convenient assumptions and guesses. In addition, a way is needed of checking whether...

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Why Do Lazy People Make More Money? The Strange Case of the Public Sector Wage Premium

Panizza, Ugo - 1999

Empirical work suggests the presence of a public sector wage premium, the reasons for which are investigated in this paper. The results demonstrate a higher premium paid to women and premium decreases concurrent with skills. Job security undermines the incentive to work hard and forces the...

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Legislación y control de riesgos de salud en América Latina y el Caribe

Bolis, Mónica - 2002

Este estudio analiza la legislación en Latín América y el Caribe con el propósito de determinar en qué medida contribuyen, o no, a la eliminación de riesgos para la salud. Los países incluidos son: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belice, Bolivia, Brasil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica,...

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Do We Know How Much Poverty There Is?

Székely, Miguel; Lustig, Nora; Cumpa, Martin; … - 2000

This paper tests the sensitivity of poverty indexes to the choice of adult equivalence scales, assumptions about the existence of economies of scale in consumption, methods for treating missing and zero incomes, and different adjustments to handle income misreporting. We also perform sensitivity...

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Public Debt and Social Expenditure: Friends or Foes?

Lora, Eduardo; Olivera, Mauricio - 2006

This paper assesses the effects of total public debt (external and domestic) on social expenditure worldwide and in Latin America using an unbalanced panel of around 50 countries for the period 1985-2003. The most robust and important finding is that higher debt ratios do reduce social...

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...

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El desempleo en América Latina y el Caribe a mediados de los años 90

Márquez, Gustavo - 1998

El desempleo es uno de los fenómenos más temidos de nuestros tiempos. Pocos fenómenos económicos son reportados tan amplia y sistemáticamente por la prensa, y menos aún generan tal nivel de debate en la opinión pública. Hay razones para este nivel de interés. Los costos económicos de...

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Macro Policy and Employment Problems in Latin America

Lora, Eduardo; Olivera, Mauricio - 1998

creation, and unemployment rates have stagnated at about 10 percent. Informal sector employment has expanded, and increases in … unemployment rates, while price stabilization and structural reforms have affected the composition of labor demand and relative …

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The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts

Lora, Eduardo; Márquez, Gustavo - 1998

This article, which serves as an introduction to a group of studies prepared by the IDB Office of the Chief Economist, presents the perceptions of Latin American citizens and employers concerning the employment problem. It compares them to the conditions in the labor markets of the region.

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Latin American Labor Markets in the 1990s: Deciphering the Decade

Duryea, Suzanne; Jaramillo, Olga Lucia; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - 2003

This paper analyzes the recent performance of Latin American labor markets. We find that unemployment rates are on the … rise in most countries and sub-regions of Latin America. The rise in unemployment over the 1990s is not driven by a higher … workers. In a few countries, increasing unemployment is caused by falling employment rates. In the rest, unemployment rates …

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