four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro …-cyclical in all countries up to the mid-1990s except in Chile. Wage cyclicality declines thereafter, especially in Brazil and … Colombia. This decline in wage cyclicality is in accordance with declining real-wage flexibility in a low-inflation environment …

data from 2005-15 for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico, this paper explores the effect of a negative household income shock on … likelihood that students in upper secondary and tertiary school exit school in Argentina and Brazil, but not in Mexico. For the …

studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …

-employed female workers in urban areas in three Latin American countries-Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica-after structural reforms … were introduced. The analysis covers pre- and post-reform years: in Argentina, 1988 and 1997, and in Brazil and Costa Rica … in Argentina and Brazil-that is, the adjusted wage differential between more educated and less educated women decreased …

-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged …

, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate … explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In … Brazil the authors cannot reject the null hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

liberalization gains that arise when examining tariffs alone. This paper examines the experiences of Argentina and Brazil during the …

investigate how, and how successfully, Argentina and Brazil dealt with these problems in the 1990s. In both countries, sub … growth. Occasional stabilization plans failed within a few years. Then Argentina (in 1991) and Brazil (in 1994) introduced …