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Job market discrimination against slum dwellers in urban Argentina

Zanoni López, 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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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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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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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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On the credibility of inflation targeting regimes in Latin America

Mariscal, Rodrigo; Powell, Andrew; Tavella, Pilar - 2014

Inflation targeting has been adopted in a set of emerging economies, including eight countries in Latin America. The success of this regime may depend critically on the credibility of the target and the expectation that the authorities will take appropriate actions if the target is breached....

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Partisanship, ideology, and representation in Latin America

Saiegh, Sebastián M. - 2014

This paper uses joint scaling methods and similar items from three large-scale surveys to place voters, parties and politicians from different Latin American countries on a common ideological space. Contrary to the conventional wisdom, the findings reveal that the "median" voter in Latin America...

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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills : is Latin America different?

López Bóo, Florencia - 2013

This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...

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A cycle-adjusted fiscal rule for sustainable and more equitable growth in Argentina

Zúñiga, Jimena; Capello, Marcelo; Butler, Inés; … - 2013

This paper seeks to identify the most promising fiscal strategy to boost long-term economic growth in Argentina and quantify its effects. To this end, the authors updated a growth-diagnostics study for Argentina and corroborated that low appropriability of social returns and insufficient public...

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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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