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Crisis and recovery in Argentina: labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics
Khamis, Melanie - 2005
This paper explores the labor market, poverty, inequality and pro-poor growth dynamics in the recent economic crisis and recovery in Argentina. In the labor market it is possible to see the diverging experience of the economic crisis and recovery. For instance, the unemployed were more likely to...
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Informality and macroeconomic fluctuations
Fiess, Norbert M.; Fugazza, Marco; Maloney, William F. - 2008
This paper examines the adjustment of developing country labor markets to macroeconomic shocks. It models as having two sectors: a formal salaried (tradable) sector that may or may not be affected by union or legislation induced wage rigidities, and an informal (nontradable) self-employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268792
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Comparative analysis of labor market dynamics using Markov processes: an application to informality
Bosch, Mariano; Maloney, William F. - 2007
This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of continuous time Markov transition processes. It then uses these to establish stylized facts about dynamic patterns of movement using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico....
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How do crises affect schooling decisions? Evidence from changing labor market opportunities and a policy experiment
López Bóo, Florencia - 2008
This paper examines the effect of labor market opportunities on schoolingemployment decisions in 12 urban areas in Argentina over 12 years, emphasizing the recession/crisis years 1998-2002. Over 'typical' years deteriorating job rates increase the probability of attending school and decrease the...
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Structural Volatility in Argentina: A Policy Report
Caballero, Ricardo J. - 2000
The author identifies sources of volatility in Argentina that include weak international financial links, a recurrent credit crunch and financial underdevelopment problem, a fragile fiscal situation, and a pervasive profit and collateral squeeze mechanism brought about by a rigid labor market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327170
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Labor Market and Globalization: A Comparison of the Latin American and the East Asian Experiences in the 1980s and 1990s
Bruno, Randolph Luca - 2010
In this paper we analyse the labor market and its relationship with globalization in two groups of countries similar in their GDP per capita levels at the beginning of the 1980s but otherwise significantly different in their economic and social structures. On the one hand we look at Argentina,...
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Transformaciones recientes en las formas de contratación de la fuerza de trabajo argentina. El estado como empleador. 1990-2013
Gonilski, Martín - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011810742
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Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Arbeitsmarkt und Rentenversicherung in Argentinien und Chile
Ruff, Barbara - 2002
�Bevölkerungsentwicklung, Arbeitsmarkt und Rentenversicherung in Argentinien und Chile.� Die vorliegende Dissertation … beschäftigt sich an den Beispielen von Argentinien und Chile mit den Auswirkungen sich ändernder Alters- und … genannt wurde, während sich Argentinien in Folge unzureichender Reformfähigkeit von einem relativ fortschrittlichen …
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Payroll Taxes, Wages and Employment: Identification through Policy Changes
Cruces, Guillermo; Galiani, Sebastian; Kidyba, Susana - 2010
This paper investigates the effect of changes in payroll taxes on wages and employment in Argentina. The analysis, based on administrative data, focuses on the impact of a series of major changes in payroll taxes which varied across geographical areas. This setup offers two main advantages over...
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