Giving Children a Better Start: Preschool Attendance & School-Age Profiles [PDF]
, 2007 We study the effect of pre-primary education on children's subsequent school outcomes by exploiting a unique feature of the Uruguayan household survey (ECH) that collects retrospective information on preschool attendance in the context of a rapid ...
Berlinksi, Sam +2 more
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The Cost of Job Security Regulation: Evidence from Latin American Labor Markets [PDF]
This paper documents the high level of job security protection in Latin American labor markets and analyzes its impact on employment. We show that job security policies have substantial impact on the level and the distribution of employment in Latin ...
Carmen Pages, James J. Heckman
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Who Benefits from Increased Access to Public Services at the Local Level? A Marginal Benefit Incidence Analysis for Education and Basic Infrastructure [PDF]
Do poor people benefit more or less than the nonpoor from an expansion in access to public services? And do those benefits depend on the existing level of access?
Ajwad, Mohamed Ishan, Wodon, Quentin
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Entorno regulatorio y ausentismo laboral. Una aproximación teórica
Sotavento MBA, 2012 Este documento presenta una revisión de literatura sobre trabajos recientes que se ocupan de las causas del absentismo desde varias perspectivas.
Carlos Alberto Restrepo Rivillas
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Cuestiones de SociologíaEste trabajo aborda el estudio de los cambios ocurridos en la estructura ocupacional de la sociedad argentina reciente entre 2016 y 2023 en clave de desigualdades sociolaborales –en materia de calidad del empleo y remuneraciones–.
Maria Noel Fachal
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Los años 90 en América Latina: otra década de desigualdad persistente, pero con un poco menos de pobreza [PDF]
(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se procesan 76 encuestas de hogares de 17 países latinoamericanos, para documentar las variaciones de la pobreza y la desigualdad durante los años 90.
Miguel Székely
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The Informal Labor Market in Colombia: identification and characterization [PDF]
In this paper, we study the extent and nature of informality in Colombia by using the new chapter on informality in the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from August 2006 to December 2006, which includes new questions deepening the information on ...
Bernal Raquel
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Pobreza crónica y transitoria: evidencia para Argentina 1997-2012 [PDF]
, 2014 Este trabajo estudia la evolución de los indicadores de pobreza intertemporal en Argentina durante los últimos 15 años. Aprovechando el esquema de rotación de la EPH, se construyen paneles sucesivos durante el período 1997-2012 que permiten descomponer ...
Alejo, Osvaldo Javier +1 more
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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
income distribution, polarisation, cohesion, inequality, poverty, institutions, instability, conflict, corruption, Latin America ...
Ezequiel Molina, Leonardo Gasparini
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La importancia de los bienes públicos en la calidad de vida local: El caso de Manizales, Colombia [PDF]
, 2011 This paper applies a method designed by the BID to monitor of urban quality based on the combination of two approaches: hedonic prices and lifestile satisfaction. This combination allows the assessment of local public resources from both the market point
Velasquez, Liliana
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