Has aggregate income growth been effective in reducing poverty and inequality in Latin America? / Alain de Janvry and Elisabeth Sadoulet -- Social protection for the unemployed : programs in Latin America / Gustavo Márquez -- Heterogeneity and optimal unemployment insurance / Hugo A. Hopenhayn...

Interest in learning how to make the most of the potential developmental benefits of remittance flows has grown worldwide. Financing the Family adds to that body of knowledge with a summary of recent research that emphasizes experimental approaches, focuses on Central America, and analyzes the...

This volume uses the study of firm dynamics to investigate the factors preventing faster productivity growth in Latin America and the Caribbean. Each chapter is dedicated to an examination of a different factor affecting firm productivity - innovation, ICT usage, on-the-job-training, firm age,...

Improves our understanding of the determinants of well-being in Latin America using a broad "quality-of-life" concept that challenges standard assumptions in economics, including those about the relationship between happiness and income. Builds upon new economic approaches related to the study...

This paper investigates the inter-industry wage differentials in Brazil. We examine the impacts of industry affiliation at the three-digit level, and control our regressions with firm variables such as plant size, nationality of capital, and international trade, among several other labor...

This paper investigates the determinants of competitive advantage of a developing country's exporting firms. It brings at least two innovations. First, we employ an unprecedented database in the analysis of firms' international competitiveness. The database is the result of the compilation of...