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The Latin American Efficiency Gap [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The average Latin American country produces about 1 fifth of the output per worker of the US. What are the sources of these enormous income gaps? I report development-accounting results for Latin America. On average Latin America's overall physical and human capital endowment relative to the USA is essentially identical to Latin America's efficiency ...
openaire   +3 more sources

Environmental Sustainability and Business Profitability: Profiling Winners and Losers With Machine Learning

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 5205-5239, July 2025.
ABSTRACT We utilize a rich dataset of manufacturing firms to investigate the heterogeneous effects of ISO 14001 on the financial performance of certified firms. We employ machine learning techniques, specifically causal tree and causal forest, to uncover these effects. Our findings reveal consistently positive average effects of ISO 14001 certification
Xiaoliu Xu, Abdoul G. Sam
wiley   +1 more source

Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market:An analysis of wage differentials between Afrodescendants and whites. [PDF]

open access: yes
Latin America is a region of sharp inequalities that are far from ethnically blind. In particular, there exists a significant socioeconomic gap between Latin Americans of European and the Afrodescendant and Indigenouos populations.
Marisa Bucheli, Rafael Porzecanski
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Unveiling the Relationship Between ESG and Growth of Unlisted Firms: Empirical Insights From Eastern Europe and Central Asia

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 5669-5686, July 2025.
ABSTRACT This study aims to uncover the empirical relationship between environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors and the growth of 19,956 unlisted firms in the East Europe and Central Asia (EECA) region. While the existing literature focuses on ESG performance in listed firms, there is a gap in understanding the growth dynamics of unlisted ...
Nosheen Rasool   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review: Sandra Gruner-Domić (2005). Latinas in Deutschland. Eine ethnologische Studie zu Migration, Fremdheit und Identität [Latinas in Germany. An Ethnological Study on Migration, Foreignness and Identity]

open access: yesForum: Qualitative Social Research, 2007
On the basis of biographical interviews Sandra GRUNER DOMIĆ examines the migration of Latin American women to Germany. She tries to reconstruct the actions and decisions of the women in order to make them comprehensible.
Julia Simonson
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Play Selection in the Department of Speech and Drama at Pan American University in the 1970s and 1980s: Twenty Years of Excluding Latino Plays [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
The theatre program at the University of Texas-Pan American has a long history of excluding Latino plays from its production seasons, even though the university is located near the Mexican border and the majority of its students are Mexican American. The
Wiley, Eric
core   +2 more sources

Latin American epidemiology [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Journal of Epidemiology, 2008
Cesar G. Victora, Laura C. Rodrigues
openaire   +3 more sources

Transparency or Map‐Washing? Digital Geospatial Visualisation Tools in the Palm Oil Industry

open access: yesBusiness Strategy and the Environment, Volume 34, Issue 5, Page 5967-5987, July 2025.
ABSTRACT We introduce the notion of map‐washing and ask whether digital geospatial visualisation (DGV) tools distort information or provide greater supply chain transparency. Map‐washing explains a process of disclosing spatial information that has little or no value to the intended users, but rather creates, conforms to or distorts a particular ...
Rory Padfield   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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