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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? : a study for the six largest Latin American economies

Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022

Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...

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The distributional effect of a massive exodus in Latin America and the role of downgrading and regularization

Lombardo, Carlo; Martinez-Correa, Julian; … - 2021

The massive displacement of Venezuelan citizens to Colombia is the second most important episode of forced migration in the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical heterogeneity in the intensity of migration. We use...

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Automation trends and labor markets in Latin America

Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2023

This paper studies the effects of automation of production on labor market outcomes, and whether there is an effect of automation on functional and personal inequality in Latin America. The paper combines several data sources and empirical strategies in order to approach the issues from...

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The risk of automation in Argentina

Gasparini, Leonardo; Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; … - 2020 - This version: January 29, 2020

In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in Argentina as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. In order to do that we combine (i) indicators of potential...

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Exploring trends in labor informality in Latin America, 1990 - 2010

Tornarolli, Leopoldo; Battistón, Diego; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2014

Labor informality is a pervasive characteristic of the labor markets in Latin America, and a central issue in the … public policy debate. This paper discusses the concept of labor informality and implements alternative definitions using … labor informality, defined as lack of social protection related to employment, remained with few changes in the 1990s, there …

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The risk of automation in Latin America

Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2021

In this paper we characterize workers’ vulnerability to automation in the near future in the six largest Latin American economies as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their occupation. We combine (i) indicators of...

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Routinization and employment : evidence for Latin America

Gasparini, Leonardo; Lombardo, Carlo; Brambilla, Irene; … - 2021

We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International...

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Lucky women in unlucky cohorts : gender differences in the effects of initial labor market conditions in Latin America

Berniell, Inés; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; … - 2022

This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing region. Using harmonized microdata from national household surveys for 15 Latin American countries, we build a synthetic panel of cohorts that potentially transition from school to...

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