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informal economy. Informal employment (not affiliated with social security) is estimated at 4.3 million according to the 2017 …
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This work provides evidence of the effect of innovation on employment in two countries where this impact has not been … products in the market positively affects employment in Mexico and Ecuador. While process innovation tends to destroy jobs in … loss of employment caused by process innovation. …
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their employment variation for a sample of Spanish companies during the 2007 - 2010 period. Financial conservatism consists …
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employment across Mexican states. As a measure of formal employment we use the number of workers with permanent contracts … states are highly heterogeneous with respect to the degree of employment comovement and the association between the state and … national employment. Only in 11 of the 32 states we find that fluctuations in state employment are highly synchronized between …
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We determine the extent of cyclical comovement in employment among the regions of Mexico by analyzing the covariance of … the disturbances in regional cycles during the period July 1997 - October 2009. Employment refers to the number of workers … structural multivariate model of the employment time series. We find, for most regions, that employment comovement is high and …
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This paper analyzes Bolivian exports focusing on their jobs results. We find that: i) employment created by exports is … negative and significant impact on employment, although part of this has been offset by selling more to Venezuela, as part of …
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At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also shows a positive trend. However, significant differences...
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for output (at current and constant prices), wage compensation and total employment and employees at the desired level of …
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This study quantifies the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth in Bolivia by using microdata … demonstrate that employment growth is explained by product innovation. On the other hand, we find no evidence of a displacement … employment is slightly favored over that of unqualified employment. …
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Adolescent pregnancy is a latent event in the world, especially in developing countries, and it has consequences of great importance for the young women who face it. This work seeks to demonstrate these consequences in the career of Bolivian women who, although they are not between 15 and 19...
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