Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 50,175
Cover Image
Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean
Espino, Emilio; Rozada, Martín González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943765
Cover Image
Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995
Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
deterioration of economic management. Growth and inflation were highly volatile, real wages fell in a sustained way, and poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357923
Cover Image
Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943424
Cover Image
Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?
Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank
Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772370
Cover Image
The Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America
Duryea, Suzanne; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943383
Cover Image
Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Step Up the Social Ladder?
Lora, Eduardo (contributor);  … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …
This book looks at the potential and the limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as steps to remove the constrains that hamper entrepreneurship. This volume assesses the relevant literature on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943581
Cover Image
Should Central Banks Target Happiness?: Evidence from Latin America
Ruprah, Inder jit; Luengas, Pavel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
It has become common wisdom amongst monetary policy professionals that central banks in Latin America should adopt inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In this working paper, using subjective well-being...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943695
Cover Image
Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...
Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944185
Cover Image
Labor Markets and Income Support: What Did We Learn from the Crises?
Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population … affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the traditional, labor law-based income … better designed mechanism to protect workers against the effects of macroeconomic volatility. The paper argues for an income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944300
Cover Image
Geographical Exclusion in Rural Areas of El Salvador: Its Impact on Labor Market Outcomes
Andrade, Ana Regina Vides de; Palomo, Anabella Lardé de; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
's rural areas on three labor market outcomes: labor force participation decision, sector of employment, and labor income. In … impact on men's labor income. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944524