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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Messina, Julian - 2017
four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …
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What are the Effects of Expanding a Social Pension Program on Extreme Poverty and Labor Supply? Evidence from Mexico's Pension Program for the Elderly
Avila Parra, Clemente - 2017
In 2013, Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly was expanded by changing its eligibility threshold from age 70 … to age 65. Using pooled cross-sectional data from Mexico's National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the …-experimental methods, results show that the expansion of Mexico's Social Pension Program for the Elderly not only reduced the probability …
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Does Expanding Health Insurance Beyond Formal-Sector Workers Encourageinformality? Measuring the Impact of Mexico's Seguro Popular
Aterido, Reyes - 2017
Seguro Popular was introduced in 2002 to provide health insurance to the 50 million Mexicans without Social Security. This paper tests whether the program has had unintended consequences, distorting workers' incentives to operate in the informal sector. The analysis examines the impact of Seguro...
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Conditional Cash Transfers, Adult Work Incentives, and Poverty
Skoufias, Emmanuel - 2017
examine whether the PROGRESA program of Mexico affects adult participation in the labor market and overall adult leisure time …
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Poverty-Specific Purchasing Power Parities in Africa
Dikhanov, Yuri - 2017
The paper revisits the issue of poverty-specific purchasing power parities (PPPs), using the most recent (2011) International Comparison Program (ICP) results. The World Bank's global poverty count uses a common international poverty line -- currently $1.90 at 2011 international prices-based on...
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Do Countries Learn from Experience in Infrastructure PPP? PPP Practice and Contract Cancellation
Marcelo, Darwin - 2017
Learning from experience to improve future infrastructure public-private partnerships is a focal issue for policy makers, financiers, implementers, and private sector stakeholders. An extensive body of case studies and "lessons learned" aims to improve the likelihood of success and attempts to...
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Why South Africa is Cheap for the Rich and Expensive for the Poor : Reconsidering the Balassa-Samuelson Effect
Dadam, Vincent - 2019
This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had...
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Estimating an Equilibrium Exchange Rate for the Argentine Peso
Coppola, Andrea - 2017
This paper assesses the equilibrium value of the Argentine peso exchange rate based on the country's economic fundamentals and compares it with the official exchange rate value. The paper estimates a behavioral equilibrium exchange rate model that allows for movements in the equilibrium real...
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Preferences, Purchasing Power Parity, and Inequality : Analytical Framework, Propositions, and Empirical Evidence
Majumder, Amita - 2017
This paper makes analytical, methodological and empirical contributions to the literature on purchasing power parity. Purchasing power parities are required in a host of cross-country welfare comparisons, such as poverty rates and gross domestic product. The subject has recently generated much...
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Depreciations Without Exports? Global Value Chains and the Exchange Rate Elasticity of Exports
Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali - 2017
This paper analyzes how the exchange rate elasticity of exports has changed over time and across countries and sectors, and how the formation of global value chains has affected this relationship. The analysis uses a panel framework covering 46 countries over the period 1996-2012, and first...
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