The present paper develops a mechanism of technological transformation essentially built on two premises, namely, that most technologies needed for today's poor economies to get out of backwardness are already available in advanced industrialized economies, and that there is a circularity...

This paper studies the effects of fixed-term contracts on workers. Specifically, the paper analyzes their impact on wages and on satisfaction levels. Regulations governing fixed-term and indefinite contracts in Colombia and the main labor reforms related to these two types of contract are...

This paper uses a dynamic macro-micro framework to evaluate the potential distributional effects of the expansion of the Panama Canal. The results show that large macroeconomic effects are only likely during the operations phase (2014 and onwards), and income gains are likely to be concentrated...

Resumen: Con base en la Información de la Encuesta Anual Manufacturera de 1956 a 2007, en este trabajo se encuentra una relación directa entre la creación de establecimientos y la creación de empleo. Sin desconocer el efecto del empleo como costo laboral, se reivindica el carácter del...

Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...

The recent spurt of economic growth in India has been described as ‘jobless growth’. In this paper an attempt has been made to examine the question of when industrial development provides required dynamism for generating desired employment opportunities for labour force and when it does not....

The Republic of Mozambique is experiencing a significant social and economic change and needs an updated informative base to allow policy-makers to found their decision on reliable and comparable data. The fast development of the Non Observed Economy (NOE) was one of the most important...