used to measure the effects of immigrants from a particular skill group on native-born workers with similar skills. I use … an augmented version of the skill-cell approach to examine the impacts of immigrants on native workers with similar … skills but also across skill groups. I apply this approach to the case of Nicaraguan immigrants in Costa Rica. I find large …

migrants in terms of employment, informality and earnings of Peruvian workers during 2008-2018. We find that a 1 pp increase in …

lines, may increase access to a wider array of job opportunities, potentially leading to increased rates of employment … from the system, before and after the system started to operate. We find large impacts on employment, hours worked and …

The link between innovation and employment is at the center of the policy debate. This paper sheds light on how labor … market regulations affect the relationship between different types of innovation and employment in Latin America. We estimate …) product innovations have a positive impact on employment growth; (ii) process innovations do not affect employment growth …

examine the contribution of Lima's Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system to accessibility to employment in the city, particularly for … low-income public transit users. We build on secondary datasets of employment, household socio-demographics and Origin …-Destination surveys before and after the BRT began operations to assess its effects on potential accessibility to employment. Findings …

This paper investigates the impact of tourism policy on employment, using the Tourism Development Policy (TDP … tourism employment in Salta by an average of 11 percent per year, for an overall impact of around 112 percent between 2003 and …

reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …