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Productive Development Policies and Innovation Spillovers through Labor Force Mobility: The Case of the Brazilian Innovation Support System
Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo; Júnior, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper focuses on two research problems. The first is to measure the direct impacts of innovation support measures in Brazil, and the second is to test the hypothesis of indirect effects of innovation policies on non-beneficiary firms through the labor mobility channel, whether resulting...
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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scarpetta, Stefano; Pierre, Gaëlle - Inter-American Development Bank
More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772443
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What Difference Do Unions Make?: Their Impact on Productivity and Wages in Latin America
Murillo, Maria Victoria; Carmen Urízar H.; … - Inter-American Development Bank
productivity or an intrusion of politics into the workplace. In spite of these strong opinions, the effects of unions in Latin … impact of unions on private-sector firm performance, agricultural productivity, and educational outcomes in public school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010772517
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Job Creation in Latin America and the Caribbean: Recent Trends and Policy Challenges
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scarpetta, Stefano; Pierre, Gaëlle - Inter-American Development Bank
More than a decade has passed since the introduction of comprehensive macroeconomic stabilization packages and trade, fiscal, and financial market reforms in Latin America and the Caribbean. However, growth prospects remain disappointing; labor markets show lackluster performance, with low...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943514
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What Difference Do Unions Make?: Their Impact on Productivity and Wages in Latin America
Murillo, Maria Victoria; Carmen Urízar H.; … - Inter-American Development Bank
productivity or an intrusion of politics into the workplace. In spite of these strong opinions, the effects of unions in Latin … impact of unions on private-sector firm performance, agricultural productivity, and educational outcomes in public school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943600
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Employment, Capital, and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector
Casacuberta, Carlos; Fachola, Gabriela; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … capital were accompanied by an increase in total factor productivity, especially in sectors where tariff reductions were … larger and unions were not present. The authors found no evidence of varying productivity dynamics across different industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943857
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Impact Evaluation of Innovation and Linkage Development Programs in Costa Rica: The Cases of PROPYME and CR Provee
Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio; Monge-González, Ricardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013
This paper estimates the impact of two productive development programs (PDPs) in Costa Rica: PROPYME and CR Provee. The first seeks to increase the capacity of small and medium-sized firms (SMEs) to innovate, and the second aims to increase backward linkages between Costa Rican SMEs and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944064
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Competitiveness and Growth in El Salvador
Zegarra, Luis Felipe; Rodríguez, Marta; Acevedo, Carlos - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This is the presentation of the study "Competitiveness and Growth in Latin America: Country Case: El Salvador". The study finds that phenomena associated with migration are key in understanding slow growth in El Salvador. Migration has substantially reduced the growth of labor force....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672527
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Competitiveness and Growth in Latin America: Country Case: El Salvador
Acevedo, Carlos; Rodríguez, Marta; Zegarra, Luis Felipe - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
talented people, which in turn reduces productivity and economic growth. Less economic growth, in turn, decreases job …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672610
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Latin American Immigrant Remittances by States in the United States
Bendixen; Amandi - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2010
Results and analysis of a poll of major remittance senders and charts of the origin of remittances by state in the continental United States.
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