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Trade liberalization, labor reforms and formal–informal employment dynamics
Bosch, Mariano; Goñi-Pacchioni, Edwin; Maloney, William - In: Labour Economics 19 (2012) 5, pp. 653-667
This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rise in informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from … constitutional reforms. Trade liberalization accounts for roughly 1–2.5% of the increase in informality, while the constitutional …
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The employment policy in Italy
Vito, Francesco - In: Rivista Internazionale di Scienze Sociali 123 (2013) 3-4, pp. 353-372
This article discusses full employment policies in their general and theoretical terms and assesses their possibility of application in Italy. Firstly Vito examines the arguments provided by neoclassical theory against full employment policies. Secondly Vito examines the causes of unemployment...
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Schooling, educational achievement, and the Latin American growth puzzle
Hanushek, Eric A.; Woessmann, Ludger - In: Journal of Development Economics 99 (2012) 2, pp. 497-512
Latin American economic development has been perceived as a puzzle. The region has trailed most other world regions over the past half century despite relatively high initial development and school attainment levels. This puzzle, however, can be resolved by considering educational achievement, a...
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Mean reversion in long-horizon real exchange rates: Evidence from Latin America
Astorga, Pablo - In: Journal of International Money and Finance 31 (2012) 6, pp. 1529-1550
This paper examines mean reversion in real effective exchange rates in six leading Latin American economies during the XXth century using a new data set. A unit-root approach is complemented by an error-correction model including key fundamentals such as terms of trade, trade openness and...
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Financial development and economic growth in Latin America: Is Schumpeter right?
Bittencourt, Manoel - In: Journal of Policy Modeling 34 (2012) 3, pp. 341-355
In this paper we investigate the role of financial development, or more widespread access to finance, in generating economic growth in four Latin American countries between 1980 and 2007. The results, based on panel time-series data and analysis, confirm the Schumpeterian prediction which...
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El monetarismo y el neo-estructuralismo
Isaza, Francisco Giraldo - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2001)
El presente ensayo constituye la segunda parte del trabajo titulado Las Teorías del Desarrollo en América Latina", cuya primera entrega se publicó en el número anterior de esta Revista. En esta segunda entrega se examina en su orden el pensamiento monetarista y neoestructuralista sobre los...
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Latin American economic development
Cárdenas, Mauricio; Helfand, Steven M. - Palgrave Macmillan
This article examines the strategies, successes and failures of economic development in Latin America since 1870. We divide the analysis into four key development phases: primary export-led growth (1870–1929), import substitution industrialisation (1945–82), debt crisis (1980s) and...
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Inserción competitiva en una economía globalizada
Sarmiento, Alvaro Zerda - In: REVISTA APUNTES DEL CENES (2002)
El artículo trata de estudiar las condiciones en que los países en desarrollo pretendeninsertarse y competir con algunas posibilidades en una economía cada vez másglobalizada. Para examinar la forma en que se relacionan los mencionados países,el autor realiza una serie de interrogantes que...
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Episodes of unemployment reduction in rich, middle-income and transition economies
Freund, Caroline; Rijkers, Bob - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 907-923
This paper studies the incidence and determinants of episodes of drastic unemployment reduction, defined as swift, substantial, and sustained declines in unemployment. We identify 43 episodes over a period of nearly 3 decades in 94 rich, middle-income and transition countries. Unemployment...
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The labor market effects of introducing unemployment benefits in an economy with high informality
Bosch, Mariano; Esteban-Pretel, Julen - In: European Economic Review 75 (2015) C, pp. 1-17
challenges which are partly due to the high level of informality in the labor markets of these economies. This paper studies the … flows of workers between formality and informality. We build a search and matching model with endogenous destruction, on … lower employment taxes and firing costs, can produce greater decreases in informality and lower impacts on unemployment than …
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