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Working less to take care of parents? : labor market effects of family long-term care in Latin America
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, María Laura; Ibarrarán, Pablo; … - 2020
We use data from time-use surveys and the Mexican Health and Aging Study (MHAS) to analyze the relationship between the need to provide family long-term care (LTC) and womens labor supply in four Latin American countries. Descriptive analysis of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa...
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Household saving and labor informality : the case of Chile
Schclarek, Alfredo; Caggia, Mauricio - 2015
financial characterization of informal workers in Chile. The paper uses the Financial Household Survey conducted by the Central …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011290974
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Economic cycle and deceleration of female labor force participation in Latin America
Serrano, Joaquín; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana - 2018
models, using data from harmonized national household surveys of 18 countries in the period 1987-2014. We find that female …
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Gender disparities in valuing remote and hybrid work in Latin America
Diaz Escobar, Ana Maria; Salas, Luz Magdalena; Piras, … - 2024
This study sheds light on the growing trend and gender dynamics of workplace flexibility in Latin America, underscoring the importance of remote work options in the region's labor market. We explore gender differences in willingness to pay (WTP) for remote work arrangements in Latin America,...
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Do behavioral drivers matter for healthcare decision-making in times of Crisis? : a study of low-income women in El Salvador during the COVID-19 pandemic
Bernal, Pedro; Daga, Giuliana; Kossuth, Lajos; López … - 2023
Understanding health-seeking behaviors and their drivers is key for governments to manage health policies. There is a growing literature on the role of cognitive biases and heuristics in health and care-seeking behaviors, but little is known of how they might be influenced during a context of...
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Skill premium, labor supply and changes in the structure of wages in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Messina, Julián - 2017
Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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The COVID-19 pandemic in Latin American and Caribbean countries : the labor supply impact by gender
Viollaz, Mariana; Salazar-Saenz, Mauricio; Flabbi, Luca; … - 2022
We study the labor supply impact of the COVID-19 pandemic by gender in four Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries: Brazil, Chile, Dominican Republic, and Mexico. To identify the impact, we compare labor market stocks and labor market flows over four quarters for a set of balanced panel...
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Understanding domestic saving in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico
Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela; Karver, Jonathan - 2015
country, the paper finds that a possible explanation is that household savings account for a majority of domestic savings, and … financial system for fueling productive investment. The construction of a synthetic panel from household survey data shows that … household savings in Mexico have a clear age-increasing trend and have been growing across generations during the past 30 years …
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Public financial management, health financing and under-five mortality : a comparative empirical analysis
Piatti-Fünfkirchen, Moritz; Smets, Lodewijk - 2019
This paper examines the relationship between public financial management (PFM), the financing of health interventions, and health outcomes. Specifically, the paper econometrically tests whether the effect of PFM on under-five (U5) mortality depends on the relevance of public sector health...
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Understanding the drivers of household energy spending : micro evidence for Latin America
Jiménez, Raúl; Yepez-Garcia, Ariel - 2017
The paper investigates the determinants of household energy spending and energy budget shares, with a focus on …, harmonized collection of official household surveys from 13 Latin American countries. This dataset allows distinguishing between … households. These results join the previous literature in emphasizing the relevance of taking into account household demographic …
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