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This study seeks to determine the impact on female labor outcomes of the amendment to the Colombian labor law that extended maternity leave from 12 to 14 weeks (Law 1468 of July 2011). To identify this impact, labor market outcomes of two groups of women with different fertility rates are...
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firm size, wages and productivity are positively related. This paper constructs a unique monthly linked employer …-to-job flows reallocate workers from low productivity to high productivity firms and often this pattern is tested assuming that … employment size, wage or productivity show different responses of employment growth rates to business cycles. The relationship …
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Using establishment-level data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey, we assess the market power of exporting firms across 16 countries in Latin America. Leveraging information on export destinations, as well as exchange rate and price data, we construct exchange rate-driven shocks to the...
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Shock has affected the future growth rates of productivity, employment level, workforce composition, wages, export …, workforce composition, wages per employee, productivity, and domestic sales. While the current growth rate of export performance …
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with relevant skills and capabilities. In light of our results, it is not clear that the higher education systems in these …
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Technology (PATCA II) implemented in the Dominican Republic. The program aimed to increase the agricultural productivity and … not validate the hypotheses that knowledge spillovers might take place among farmers in close geographical and social …
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Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training … the intervention was more effective in boosting leadership skills than communication skills. Spillovers from trained … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. …
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Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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Job training programs can be an eective policy for improving productivity and labor market outcomes in low and middle …' skills and most labor outcomes but some evidence of a effect on labor income. We also find evidence of heterogeneous effects …
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have had a positive impact on participants' productivity, only FONDEF-funded projects have generated positive spillovers on …-level research and development (R&D) investment in Chile on firm productivity. Because the two programs target different kinds of … projects - the National Productivity and Technological Development Fund (FONTEC) subsidizes intramural R&D, while the Science …
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