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Innovation and productivity : evidence from six Latin American countries
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305976
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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
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
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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
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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
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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. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286684
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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
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Teacher policies, incentives, and labor markets in Chile, Colombia, and Perú : implications for equality
Bertoni, Eleonora; Elacqua, Gregory; Jaimovich, Analía; … - 2018
disadvantaged schools: Chile, Colombia, and Peru. We use unique micro-data at the teacher and school level to describe the … measures in Colombia. In contrast, in Chile, the three measures have an inconsistent and weak relationship with mother’s level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927070
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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
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Does firm heterogeneity impact the effectiveness of carbon taxes? : experiments in Argentina and Mexico
Chisari, Omar O.; Miller, Sebastián - 2014
numerical experiments, two CGE models calibrated for Argentina and Mexico are used. The 'domestic leakage' is found to be more … relevant for Argentina than for Mexico. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011286670
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Competition-adjusted measures of real exchange rates
Stein, Ernesto; Fernández, Andrés; Rosenow, Samuel; … - 2018
We develop a methodology to construct real effective exchange rates that incorporate two distinctive elements not accounted for in the traditional measures: i) competition in third markets and ii) adjustments for similarity in export baskets between exporters and their competitors. In addition...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011882792