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Is Informality a Good Measure of Job Quality?: Evidence from Job Satisfaction Data
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Madrigal, Lucía - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
The formality status of a job is the most widely used indicator of job quality in developing countries. However, a number of studies argue that, at least for some workers, the informality status may be driven by choice rather than exclusion. This paper uses job satisfaction data from three...
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The Gender Wage Gap in Peru 1986-2000: Evidence from a Matching Comparisons Approach
Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Applying the methodology developed in Ñopo (2004), this paper analyzes the evolution of the gender wage gap in Peru from 1986 to 2000. This methodology has two advantages. First, it recognizes that the supports of observable characteristics distributions differ substantially. Second, it...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943678
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Macroeconomic Volatility in Latin America: A View and Three Case Studies
Caballero, Ricardo J. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
After decades of trial, error, and occasional regress, the pieces of a successful Latin American economic model can be seen scattered among the leading economies of the region. The most traditional macroeconomic maladies of the emerging world, such as chronic fiscal imbalances and monetary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943720
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Inflation and Labor Market Flexibility: The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease
Loboguerrero, Ana María; Panizza, Ugo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
Inflation can grease the wheels of the labor market by relaxing downward wage rigidity but it can also increase … interaction between inflation and labor market regulations affects how employment responds to changes in output. The results show … that in industrial countries with highly regulated labor markets, the grease effect of inflation dominates the sand effect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943743
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Credit, Labor Informality and Firm Performance in Colombia
Galindo, Arturo José; Caro, Lorena; Arjona, Marcela … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
This paper explores the links between labor formality, access to credit and firm performance in Colombia using Annual … informality. The results suggest that a 10 percent increase in the ratio of credit to sectoral output increases labor formality … reports a strong correlation between labor formality and firm performance measured as output and employment growth. A one …
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Quality of Life in Montevideo
Ferre, Zuleika; Gandelman, Néstor; Piani, Giorgina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
due to differences in individual outcomes like education, health, labor situation and housing quality. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943847
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Employment, Capital, and Productivity Dynamics: Evidence from the Uruguayan Manufacturing Sector
Casacuberta, Carlos; Fachola, Gabriela; Gandelman, Néstor - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004
This paper studies the impact of trade liberalization on labor and capital gross flows and productivity in the … mitigate the destruction of jobs but had no effect on job creation or capital dynamics. The changes in the use of labor and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943857
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Trade and Employment: Evidence from Latin America and the Caribbean
Márquez, Gustavo; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997
This paper examines the impact of the recent wave of trade liberalization and economic reform on employment. Four alternative measures of openness and four measures of the real exchange rate are used to measure the impact of trade reforms on manufacturing and economy-wide employment. Across a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943875
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Ethnic and Gender Wage Gaps in Ecuador
Ñopo, Hugo; Gallardo, Lourdes - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
Returns to labor for workers with similar endowments of productive characteristics in Ecuador are influenced by two …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943955
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The Employment Problem in Latin America: Perceptions and Stylized Facts
Lora, Eduardo; Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 1998
conditions in the labor markets of the region. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943970