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. These studies have typically estimated the return to education in terms of changes in wages rather than employment …, effectively ignoring the fact that trade liberalization affects not only wages but also employment opportunities. In this paper we … trade liberalization on the return to education taking into account both changes in wages and employment. The results show …
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The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has hit the foundations of the economy and provoked devastating social effects in all the countries in the world, being Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) one of the most affected regions. This report updates the regional overview of the response measures...
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uses meta regression models to analyse systematic patterns in the data. In addition to analysing earnings and employment … types of interventions. Moreover, when looking at the sample of training programmes alone, we observe that formal employment …
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uses meta regression models to analyse systematic patterns in the data. In addition to analysing earnings and employment … types of interventions. Moreover, when looking at the sample of training programmes alone, we observe that formal employment …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011746148
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Massive digitalization advances have made demand response (DR) programs feasible in the residential sector; however, most households in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region do not know about these types of programs. In this report, the authors explore experiments about the willingness of...
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This paper examines the impact of the recent wave of trade liberalization and economic reform on employment. Four … manufacturing and economy-wide employment. Across a wide range of specifications, trade reforms have had a negative, albeit small …, effect on employment growth. This effect has been reinforced by real exchange rate appreciation. …
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This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
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This paper analyses the links between the integration into the international economy and development in Latin America over the past quarter century. It argues that external liberalization led to faster export growth but not to faster GDP or productivity growth. Growth also became more volatile,...
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