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In the early 2000s, the Colombian government aired messages during games of the national football team, urging FARC rebels to demobilize. We first study the strategy's effectiveness, leveraging game dates, kick-off times, and spatial-temporal variation in rain-induced signal strength in a...
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growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth … comparable income data. Our growth analysis using these data confirms the significant effects of cognitive skills on intra …
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growth models estimated across world regions, these low levels of cognitive skills can account for the poor growth … comparable income data. Our growth analysis using these data confirms the significant effects of cognitive skills on intra …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008469714
's massive increase in demand for commodities boosted economies across Latin America, which began to grow rapidly. Growth was … global financial crisis, particularly after the end of the commodities price boom in 2014, economic growth decelerated, and …
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In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender...
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&D-intensive industries. These results imply a) that potential virtuous growth cycles exist both in the level and in the growth of TFP, and b …
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, redistribution, growth and employment) on a global scale. It tries to confront the very basic pro-globalist assumptions of the Lisbon … growth and development in Europe spread evenly among the different regions of the continent. It emerges that dependency from …
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This paper conducts a cohort analysis of labor participation in urban Mexico in recent decades. The rates analyzed are the labor force participation, the unemployment rate, and the employment shares of the formal and informal salaried sectors, as well as of self-employment. These rates are...
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Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...
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This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...
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