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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina

Zanoni, Wladimir; Acevedo, Paloma; Hernández, Hugo - 2022

We conducted a paired correspondence experiment in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to measure the extent of labor market discrimination in hiring against slum dwellers. We sent 4,290 online pairs of fictitious job applications of otherwise observationally equivalent individuals who differed in a single...

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Stylized facts on the evolution of the enterprise size distribution in India's manufacturing sector

Kapoor, Radhicka - 2022

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise …

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Convergence during the oil crisis : a comparison of labour productivity in manufacturing of the planned and market economies

Kochnev, Artem - 2024

This paper examines labour productivity convergence in manufacturing of the planned and market economies in the setting …

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Mapping the future of high value manufacturing in India

Kathuria, Rajat; Kedia, Mansi; Balakrishnan, Uttara - 2014

Indi's stagnating manufacturing sector has become a serious cause of concern for Indian policy makers. Several reasons … importance of the manufacturing sector and its potential to contribute to growth and employment, corrective measures must be … high value manufacturing sector and provides recommendations on measures to achieve this objective. In the absence of …

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Labour regulations and growth of manufacturing and employment in India : balancing protection and flexibility

Hoda, Anwarul; Rai, Durgesh K. - 2015

The factors responsible for the lacklustre performance India's manufacturing are well identified in contemporary … regulations, focusing on the enactments and provisions that inhibit flexibility of manufacturing enterprises in adapting to swift …

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Business-government interaction in policy councils in Latin America : cheap talk, expensive exchanges, or collaborative learning?

Schneider, Ben Ross - 2010

While effective industrial policy requires close cooperation between government and business, there is little agreement on what makes that cooperation work best. This paper analyzes institutional arrangements for public-private cooperation and the character of private sector representation....

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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994 - 2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña-Parga, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender wage gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000- 2001; and 2002- 2006. The gaps dropped from the...

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Evolution of gender gaps in Latin America at the turn of the twentieth century : an addendum to new century, old disparities

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo - 2010

This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007. During this span the overall gender earnings gaps dropped about 7...

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Agricultural productivity growth, efficiency change and technical progress in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ludena, Carlos E. - 2010

This paper analyzes total factor productivity growth in agriculture in Latin America and the Caribbean between 1961 and 2007 employing the Malmquist Index, a non-parametric methodology that uses data envelopment analysis (DEA) methods. The results show that among developing regions, Latin...

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New century, old disparities : gender and ethnic wage gaps in Latin America

Atal, Juan Pablo; Ñopo, Hugo; Winder, Natalia - 2009

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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