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Changes in labour market conditions and policies: Their impact on wage inequality during the last decade
Keifman, Saúl N.; Maurizio, Roxana - 2012
Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of the workings of the labour market is necessary to...
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Labor market institutions and informality in transition and Latin American countries
Lehmann, Hartmut; Muravyev, Alexander - 2012
This paper analyzes, using country-level panel data from transition economies and Latin America, the impact of labor market institutions on informal economic activity. The measure of informal economic activity is taken from Schneider et al. (2010), the most comprehensive study to date. The data...
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The role of gender inequalities in explaining income growth, poverty and inequality: Evidence from Latin American countries
Costa, Joana; Silva, Elydia; Vaz, Fábio - 2009
This Working Paper investigates the possible link between gender inequalities in the labour market and significant economic outcomes such as income growth, poverty and inequality indicators. Our analysis is based on microsimulations for eight Latin American countries. We consider four aspects of...
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Der Wandel von Push- zu Pull-Medien in der Online-Medienarbeit von Luxusmarken: Eine Untersuchung über den Einsatz von Social Media Newsrooms in der Luxusbranche
Maiwald, Anna; Teichmann, Julia; Pätzmann, Jens U. - In: Markenbrand (2014) 2/2014, pp. 8-16
Die Autoren analysieren, ob ein Social Media Newsroom eine Alternative zur herkömmlichen Pressemitteilungen via Email in der Luxusbranche ist. Ausgehend vom Intereffikationsmodell wird aufgezeigt, dass Journalismus und PR in einer Wechselbeziehung der gegenseitigen Einflussnahme stehen. Via...
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How Do Emerging Countries Influence the Advertising World of Tomorrow? An Analysis of Last Year's Cannes International Festival of Creativity
Runge, Henrike; Botzenhardt, Florian; Ferdinand, … - In: Markenbrand (2012) 1/2012, pp. 34-41
marketing industry of how to benefit from them. …
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Equity Crowdfunding in Sports Clubs: Consumer-Oriented Strategic Marketing
Kościółek, Szczepan - 2024
book explains how crowdfunding campaigns have to be fully integrated with strategic marketing plans and require a solid … for applying strategic marketing in the context of crowdfunding in sports clubs, introduces the key characteristics of the … segments of the campaigns' funders, and presents recommendations for developing marketing-mix programs to target them. This is …
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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America
Bastagli, Francesca - 2009
During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...
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The Impact of Political Risk on Sovereign Bond Spreads - Evidence from Latin America
Moser, Christoph - 2007
Sovereign risk is defined as a country?s ability-to-pay and willingness-to-pay its debt. This paper examines how cabinet reshuffles affecting the ministry of finance or economics are perceived by sovereign bond holders in twelve Latin American countries from 1992 to 2005. We find that such...
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Prospects for Regional Cooperation between Latin America and the Caribbean Region and the Asia and Pacific Region: Perspective from East Asia
Medalla, Erlinda M.; Balboa, Jenny D. - 2010
The Asia and Pacific region and Latin American and Caribbean region are two regions divided not only by vast geographic distance, but also by disparities in economics, politics, culture, and history. Most recently, a number of forums explored the possibility of closing such gaps and linking the...
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Productivity, structural change, and Latin American development
Machicado, Carlos; Rioja, Felix; Saravia, Antonio - 2012
We calibrate a simple neoclassical model of structural transformation to a set of Latin American countries and show that slow growth in agricultural productivity can substantially delay the development process and result in signi cant di erences in per capita incomes. Some of our results...
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