Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 1,399
Cover Image
Innovation and productivity : evidence from six Latin American countries
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305976
Cover Image
Growing resources for growing cities density and the cost of municipal public services in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico
Libertun de Duren, Nora; Guerrero Compeán, Roberto - 2015
per square kilometer. In this study of approximately 8,600 municipalities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico, 85 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485025
Cover Image
Firms and inequality in Latin America
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2024
The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014529789
Cover Image
Firms and inequality in Latin America
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530057
Cover Image
Long-term impacts of conditional cash transfers in Latin America : review of the evidence
Molina Millán, Teresa; Barham, Tania Catherine Jane; … - 2016
We review the literature on the long-term impacts of Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs in Latin America. Long-term impacts are defined as those that both: 1) are related to the accumulation of human capital, and; 2) are observed after beneficiary children have reached a later stage of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011555655
Cover Image
Six years of Comunidades Solidarias Rurales : impacts on school entry of an ongoing conditional cash transfer program in El Salvador
Sanchez Chico, Ana; Macours, Karen; Maluccio, John A.; … - 2018
Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are important anti-poverty programs in Latin America and the Caribbean. There is little evidence, however, of the effectiveness of ongoing CCT programs several years after they have begun. Such evidence is particularly relevant for policymakers because...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011883459
Cover Image
Current account deficits and capital flows in East Asia and Latin America : are the nineties different from the early eighties?
Milesi-Ferretti, Gian Maria; Razin, Asaf - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000965590
Cover Image
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
of time-use survey data from Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women make up 63% to 84% of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012298761
Cover Image
On the implications of taxation for investment, savings and growth : evidence from Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Espino, Emilio; González Rozada, Martín - 2015
American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … capital at a considerably lower rate than at present. Consumption should be heavily taxed in Brazil and Mexico and optimal … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289284
Cover Image
Evolving wage cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca; Messina, Julián - 2016
(Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011519079