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This paper exploits variations in the timing of telecommunications reforms across Europe to analyze the relationship between the rise of alternative work arrangements and the emergence of the Internet. The paper evaluates whether sectors that are technologically more dependent on information and...
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Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise...
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Evidence about the effect of exports on welfare at the local level is scarce. Using a unique dataset of international trade and poverty maps for almost 2,000 Mexican municipalities between 2004 and 2014, the study presented in this paper provides new evidence on the impact of a significant rise...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012876043
Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper estimates a model of self-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify...
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Este trabajo estudia el efecto de la escolaridad sobre los aprendizajes en América Latina según el nivel de integración socioeconómica de los alumnos. Utilizando datos de las distintas ediciones de PISA para 5 países de la región (Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Costa Rica y Uruguay), el trabajo...
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Este trabajo estudia el efecto de los programas de transferencias monetarias condicionadas sobre la concentración de alumnos de menor nivel socioeconómico en determinados tipos de escuelas. Utilizando datos de un municipio urbano en el estado de México, el trabajo evalúa si el programa...
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Este trabajo proporciona un modelo dinámico de segregación escolar socioeconómica. Reinterpreta y extiende el modelo Galor-Zeira para ilustrar las principales causas y consecuencias de este fenómeno. El modelo teórico predice que la segregación de los pobres será mayor cuanto mayor sea la...
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This paper studies the effects of differential exposure to COVID-19 on educational outcomes in Guatemala. The government adopted a warning index (ranging from 0 to 10) to classify municipalities by infection rates in 2020, which was then used by the Ministry of Education in 2021 to establish a...
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Understanding the selection of workers into informality is a policy priority to design programs to increase formalization across Sub-Saharan Africa, where nine out of ten workers are informal. This paper estimates a model of self-selection with entry barriers into the formal sector to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518282
Este trabajo hace uso de datos suministrados por el Programa Internacional de Evaluación de Alumnos (PISA) con el objetivo de proveer una cuantificación de los niveles y la evolución de la segregación escolar por nivel socioeconómico en el mundo y contribuir a la discusión de sus...
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