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Estimación del PIB departamental y análisis de la desigualdad regional en el Perú : 1795-2017
Seminario, Bruno; Zegarra, María Alejandra; Palomino, Luis - 2019
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014496306
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Development diagnostics for the Southern cone
Borensztein, Eduardo; Miller, Sebastián; Sánchez, Gabriel - 2014
in five Southern Cone countries: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. …
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Accessing the global value chain in a changing institutional environment : comparing aeronautics and coffee
Cafaggi, Fabrizio; Swensson, Luana F. Joppert; Macedo, … - 2012
The aim of the paper, based on empirical research in Brazil, is to investigate how supply chains have evolved over time … direct investments in human and physical capital to Brazil. …
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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
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Why does COVID-19 affect some cities more than others? : evidence from the first year of the pandemic in Brazil
Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2021
the United States, the connections between city characteristics and outcomes in Brazil can evolve over time, with some … of the disease in both countries. However, in contrast to the United States, the pandemic in Brazil took a greater toll … Brazil. Socioeconomic vulnerabilities, such as the presence of slums and high residential crowding, correlate with higher …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012616211
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Of cities and slums
Ferreira, Pedro Cavalcanti; Monge-Naranjo, Alexander; … - 2016
) of slums in Brazil. We then conduct policy counterfactuals. For instance, we find that cracking down on slums could slow …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585843
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Industrial clusters and economic performance in Brazil
Pires, José Claudio Linhares; Cravo, Túlio; Lodato, Simon - 2013
challenge by identifying the location of clusters based on neighbor relationships and specialization in Brazil and providing …
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Local banking supply and private firm activity : evidence from branch closures
Fang, Francis Haoyu; Vlaicu, Razvan - 2024
economic output in Brazil from 2011 to 2021. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy with staggered treatment timing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015045191
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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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