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What are the Effects of Monetary Policy Shocks? Evidence from Dollarized Countries
Willems, Tim - 2010
Traditional ways of analyzing the effects of monetary policy shocks via structural vector autoregressions require the use of unrealistic identifying assumptions: they either do not allow for a response of output and prices on impact of the shock, or they exclude contemporaneous values of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325927
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A Snapshot on the Quality of Seven Home Visit Parenting Programs in Latin America and the Caribbean
Leer, Jane; López Bóo, Florencia; Perez Expósito, Ana; … - 2016
Although there is ample support for the causal link between home visit parenting programs and child development outcomes, few studies have explored what it is that drives this relationship – to what extent home visit programs are implemented as designed in terms of the content and strategies...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584611
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Remesas y Migración Internacional en América Latina: Simulación de los Efectos en la Pobreza y la Desigualdad
Battistón, Diego - 2010
Nicaragua). A partir de encuestas de hogares se estiman los cambios producidos sobre estas dos dimensiones utilizando diferentes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429322
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Is informality a good measure of job quality? Evidence from job satisfaction data
Pagés, Carmen; Madrigal, Lucía - 2008
. This paper uses job satisfaction data from three low-income countries (Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador) to assess …
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Violence, Development and Migration Waves: Evidence from Central American Child Migrant Apprehensions
Clemens, Michael A. - 2017
A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744640
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What Makes a Difference in Achieving Higher Labor Productivity?: The Case of Low-Income Countries in Latin America
Nina, Osvaldo - 2005
This paper uses firm level surveys from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to estimate the determinants of … más de 1300 empresas en Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, no confirma esta hipótesis. Comparadas con todas las …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941010
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¿Qué hace la Diferencia para el Logro de una Mayor Productividad Laboral? Caso de los Países de Bajos Ingresos en América Latina
Nina, Osvaldo - 2007
más de 1300 empresas en Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras y Nicaragua, no confirma esta hipótesis. Comparadas con todas las …This paper uses firm level surveys from Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua to estimate the determinants of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941030
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SME Access to Credit in Guatemala and Nicaragua: Challenging Conventional Wisdom with New Evidence
Bebczuk, Ricardo - 2009
, and medium enterprises (MSMEs) in Guatemala and Nicaragua. To this end, and after reviewing the existing literature on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429286
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South-south migration: the impact of Nicaraguan immigrants on earnings, inequality and poverty in Costa Rica
Gindling, T. H. - 2008
developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another developing country, Costa Rica. We find little evidence to support …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268669
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Transforming informal work and livelihoods in Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Alaniz, Enrique; Gindling, Thomas; Mata, Catherine; … - 2020
Costa Rica and Nicaragua, earnings are highest for formal work, next for upper-tier informal, and last for lower … Rica than in Nicaragua, partly due to the larger proportion of formal workers within Costa Rica (58 per cent vs 19 per cent …
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