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statement, we compare the polar cases of Chile and Argentina. While Chile exhibited a significant economic slowdown after August …. We attribute their difference to the fact that Chile is more open to trade than Argentina, and that it appears to suffer …
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better economic environment. In this paper I review these sources through the recent experiences of Argentina, Chile and …
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from large multi?country case studies, and from case-studies of Chile and Cote d'Ivoire presented in the paper, shows that …
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ultimate collapse. Our purpose in setting out these experiences, those of Chile under Allende and of Peru under Garcia, is not …
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considers Chile's SNED program, which seeks to identify effective schools, selecting them from within quot … different from that conveyed by a simple test-based ranking of schools (which in Chile, turns out to largely resemble a ranking …
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Chile and Mexico experienced severe economic crises in the early 1980s. This paper analyzes four possible explanations … for why Chile recovered much faster than did Mexico. Comparing data from the two countries allows us to rule out a … two countries was the earlier policy reforms in Chile that generated faster productivity growth. The most crucial of these …
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Using plant-level data from Chile and the U.S. we show that investment spikes are highly pro-cyclical, so much so that …
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The extensive empirical macro- and micro-level evidence on the impact of job security provisions is largely inconclusive. We argue that the weak evidence is a consequence of the weak power of statistics used, which is suggested by a dynamic theory of plant-level labor demand that we develop....
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population). Using panel data on the universe of bank borrowers in Chile combined with the deleted registry information, we …
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. We study how retirement policy in Chile, which limits the drawdown of retirement assets but otherwise does not provide or …
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