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The Effects of Multiple Minimum Wages Throughout the Labor Market [PDF]
, 2004 This paper investigates the effects of legal minimum wages on wages, employment, hours worked and monthly earnings among workers covered by minimum wage legislation as well as those for whom it does not apply (the uncovered sector) in Costa Rica.
Gindling, Tim, Terrell, Katherine
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The “Pesticide Chip”: Chemical Legacies and Agrarian Futures in Costa Rica
Antipode, Volume 58, Issue 2, March 2026.Abstract For decades, agro‐industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop‐induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical ...
Soledad Castro‐Vargas, Marion Werner
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Biogeochemical ecology of six species of Sphagnum in Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1992 There is very little information on the biogeochemical ecology of Sphagnum species in tropical regions. The majority of the ecological information on Sphagnum species in the tropics consists of general habitat information and pH values that are reported ...
McQueen, Cyrus B., Wolfe, John
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Influences of Structural and Species Diversity on Forest Resistance to Drought
Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2026.Forest structural richness and species evenness respectively show positive and negative relationships with forest resistance to drought. These relationships between richness and resistance and between evenness and resistance become stronger under more severe droughts.
Erin T. H. Crockett +11 more
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Trade liberalization and foreign direct investment: an applied general equilibrium model for Costa Rica [PDF]
, 1999 This paper quantifies the welfare impact of unilateral trade liberalization and computes the optimal tariff structure for Costa Rica in the presence of trade-policy-induced international capital flows and foreign capital taxation.
Abrego, Lisandro
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Anaemic Streams: Iron and Essential Trace Metals Frequently Limit Primary Producer Biomass
Ecology Letters, Volume 29, Issue 3, March 2026.Nutrient enrichment experiments in 41 streams across the eastern United States demonstrate that trace metals can limit the growth of primary producers. Trace metals are frequently co‐limiting with macronutrients and the availability of N and P in streams and watersheds are predictive of Fe and Zn limitation status.
David M. Costello +10 more
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Construyendo un mundo a través de la literatura para niños
Revista de Filología y Lingüística de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2015 Adela Ferreto se da su lugar en el desarrollo de la literatura costarricense para los niños. Además, sus principales escritos para los niños son analizados a fin de revelar el proyecto ideológico del escritor y el principal recurso retórico que utiliza ...
Magdalena Vásquez Vargas
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Genomic Insights Into Host Shifts Between Plasmodium vivax and Plasmodium simium in Latin America
Evolutionary Applications, Volume 19, Issue 3, March 2026.ABSTRACT Malaria in Latin America is largely caused by Plasmodium vivax, but the closely related monkey parasite Plasmodium simium has recently been observed in humans, thus raising new public health concerns. By screening 719 monkey samples from five Latin America countries, we identified 23 Plasmodium‐positives.
Margaux J. M. Lefebvre +16 more
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Luisa González: el pensamiento político de una maestra costarricense comunista
Káñina, 2008 En la primera mitad del siglo XX existió en Costa Rica un grupo de mujeres intelectuales que bien podríamos denominar "las modernas" de San José. Estas mujeres fueron excepcionales para su época, debido a que se encargaron de opinar, por escrito, sobre ...
Ruth Cubillo Paniagua
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The Retelling of Astonishment of the Vice of Paradoxography in Costa Rican Literature
, 2014 La paradoxografía es un género discursivo que surgió en la Grecia clásica. Trata de fenómenos insólitos que producen asombro e incertidumbre. Las huellas de este género narrativo están presentes en la Literatura Universal, principalmente en lo fantástico, lo gótico y la Ciencia Ficción.
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