This paper seeks to understand the factors that could make knowledge-intensive services a facilitating sector for sustained growth in Argentina, as well as those that limit its expansion and internationalization. The sector's recent evolution—characterized by a period of boom followed by...

It has been widely documented at the international level that women face various types of discrimination in the labor market. This paper contributes to characterizing “gender gaps” in the Argentine labor market. Using the Permanent Household Survey (Encuesta Permanente de Hogares, EPH) as...

This paper argues that Argentina's low and volatile growth since the post-World War II period is due to a distributive conflict that has hindered sustained growth. The economy has followed an interrupted growth trajectory, caused by imbalances in the current account of the balance of payments...

Chronic inflation has affected Latin America for decades, leading to numerous stabilization attempts. In this article, we develop a novel database with 46 stabilization plans in 13 Latin American countries between 1970-2020, which we classified into three categories: failures, transitory...

Chronic inflation has affected Latin America for decades, leading to numerous stabilization attempts. In this article, we develop a novel database with 46 stabilization plans in 13 Latin American countries between 1970-2020, which we classified into three categories: failures, transitory...

We provide an interpretation of the macroeconomic performance of Argentina between 1930 and 2015, in which distributive conflict plays a central role. Following a tradition in the Argentine social sciences, we see a structural inconsistency between the income aspirations rooted in society and...