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Does Privatization Deliver? Access to Telephone Services and Household Income in Poor Rural Areas Using a Quasi-Natural Experiment in Peru

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, Virgilio; Torero, Máximo - 2005

This paper takes advantage of a quasi-natural experiment in Peru by which the privatized telecommunications company was …

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Bundling of Services and Household Welfare in Developing Countries Using Panel Data: The Case of Peru

Chong, Alberto; Hentschel, Jesko; Saavedra-Chanduví, Jaime - 2004

Using panel data for Peru for the period 1994-2000, we find that when households receive two or more services jointly …

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Training quality and earnings: The effects of competition on the provision of public-sponsored training programs

Chong, Alberto; Galdo, José - 2006

This paper evaluates the effectiveness of market-based approaches in the provision of public-sponsored training programs. In particular, we study the link between training quality and labor earnings using a Peruvian program that targets disadvantaged youths. Multiple proxies for training quality...

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Informality and productivity in the labor market : Peru 1986-2001

Chong, Alberto (contributor); Galdo, José (contributor); … - 2007

Peru has one of the highest informality rates in Latin America, with almost 60 percent of the urban labor force working … rates in the 1990s. First, Peru experienced a steady increase in employment allocation in traditionally "informal" sectors …