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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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their impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question estimating the effects of trade with … China and India on Argentina’s industrial employment. We use a dynamic econometric model and industry level data to estimate … the effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina’s manufacturing sector. Results suggest …
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This study examines the impact of process and product innovation on employment growth across four Latin American … employment growth to process innovations and to the growth of sales separately due to innovative and unchanged products. Results … show that that compensation effects are prevalent, and the introduction of new products is associated with employment …
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Abstract Using national data from 14 representative developing countries, this paper explores rural wage employment and … of employment (agricultural or non-agricultural) and the overall household livelihood strategy appear to be of limited … importance in determining whether a household uses wage employment as a pathway out of poverty. Rather, high-productivity wage …
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Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programs are gaining more and more weight in Latin America's public policy. Although there exists a wide range of literature about the impact of these programs on school matriculation, the reduction in child labour and the improvements in the health status of...
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household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment …
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The political left turn in Latin America, which lagged its transition to liberalized market economies by a decade or more, challenges conventional economic explanations of voting behavior. This paper generalizes the forward-looking voter model to a broad range of dynamic, non-concave income...
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This article studies the determinants of the concentration of legislative specialization of parties across policy jurisdictions. Greater concentration of legislative specialization leads parties to concentrate their legislative efforts on a smaller set of policy jurisdictions. Through enhancing...
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This study investigates if and how different episodes of large net inflows – export boom, remittances, FDIs, or aid – caused Dutch disease in Latin American countries. We investigate this disease – i.e. the decline of manufacturing output – with special reference to the channels through...
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A recent transition in the field of agrarian economics theory for rural development is the move from a narrow agricultural sector approach, to one which adopts broader territorial vision. This passage seeks to interpret interactions between urban and rural worlds in a more comprehensive...
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