This paper examines the post-reform economic growth in three Central American economies - Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama. From 1995 to 2015, each economy witnessed phenomenal shifts in labor market participation and occupational distribution of women. If the innate talent for a job did not...

The paper assembles and harmonizes sectoral data from several sources to study the industrial trends in six Central American economies. The industrial employment share contracted by 2.5 percentage points on average over the past two decades. This deindustrialization was not trade-driven in which...

From 1995 to 2015, Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama witnessed phenomenal shifts in labor market participation and occupational distribution of women. The occupational changes suggest that many talented women in the mid-1990s were in professions that did not conform to their comparative...

The paper assembles and harmonizes sectoral data from several sources to study the industrial trends in six Central American economies. The industrial employment share contracted by 2.5 percentage points on average in the last two decades. This deindustrialization was not trade-driven in which...