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market outcomes. This paper tests this hypothesis in a developing country by using an individual-level data set from Peru … of labor market outcomes in Peru. In particular, cognitive skills positively correlate with wages and the probability of …
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screen out high credit risk and potentially increase access to credit for small business owners in Peru. The analysis uses …
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This paper examines whether labor productivity converged across Peru?s regions (?departments?) during 2002-12. Given … the large differences in labor productivity across the regions of Peru, such convergence has the potential to raise … departments. But because services and agriculture continue to employ the majority of workers in Peru, aggregate convergence is …
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countries covered are Chile, Peru, South Africa, and Turkey, all of which have experience implementing public …
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Too often, academics and policy makers interpret formality as a binary choice and formalization as an irreversible process. Yet, formalization has many facets and shades on the business and labor fronts, and firms may not be able or willing to formalize all at once. This paper explores the joint...
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on food away from home collected as part of the National Household Survey in Peru, shedding light to the extent to which … welfare measures differ depending on whether they properly account for food away from home. Peru is a relevant context, with …
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-driven public policy objectives. This paper analyzes the experience of Peru with power markets, including market design …
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result of legal reforms that strengthened the mandate of Peru's competition authority. Legislative changes in 2013 …
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of catch-up growth across the four Young Lives countries (Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam). In addition, the paper …
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, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru). They find that in these countries standard CPI inflation typically reflects the inflation rate …
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