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51 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17671
Forced Displacement, the Perpetuation of Autocratic Leadership, and Development in Origin Countries
Nicolás Cabra-Ruiz, Sandra V. Rozo, Maria Micaela Sviatschi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17425
Landing on Water: Air Interdiction, Drug-Trafficking Displacement, and Violence in the Brazilian Amazon
Leila Pereira, Rafael Pucci, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 17201
Inequality Bands: Seventy-Five Years of Measuring Income Inequality in Latin America
Facundo Alvaredo, Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16795
Fiscal Incidence on the Island: Grenada's Fiscal System and Its Incidence
Gustavo J. Canavire Bacarreza, Guillermo Gómez Aliaga, Chevanne Britton, Fernando Rios-Avila, Wilson Jimenez Pozo, Silvia Granados Ibarra, Ran Li
IZA Discussion Paper No. 16054
Peacefully Demobilizing Rebels: Identity, Emotional Cues, and the FARC
Juan P. Aparicio, Michael Jetter, Christopher Parsons
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15506
Using Online Vacancy and Job Applicants' Data to Study Skills Dynamics
Fidel Bennett, Veronica Escudero, Hannah Liepmann, Ana Podjanin
published in: Research in Labor Economics, 2024, 52B, 35-99.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15477
Labor Market Power, Self-Employment, and Development
Francesco Amodio, Pamela Medina, Monica Morlacco
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15437
New Perspectives on Inequality in Latin America
Manuel Fernandez Sierra, Gabriela Serrano
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15160
Firms and Labor in Times of Violence: Evidence from the Mexican Drug War
Hale Utar
published online in: World Bank Economic Review, 11 September 2024
IZA Discussion Paper No. 15143
The Magnitude and Predictors of Overeducation and Overskilling in Latin America: Evidence from PIAAC
Juan Francisco Castro, Lorena Ortega, Gustavo Yamada, David Mata
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14539
Economics of Minority Groups: Labour Market Returns and Transmission of Indigenous Languages
Diego de la Fuente Stevens, Panu Pelkonen
published in: World Development, 2023, 162, 106096
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14390
Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants
Francesco Amodio, Nicolás de Roux
published as 'Measuring Labor Market Power in Developing Countries: Evidence from Colombian Plants' in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2024, 42 (2), 949–977
IZA Discussion Paper No. 14218
Trends and Determinants of Female Labor Force Participation in Morocco: An Initial Exploratory Analysis
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Florencia Devoto, Matias Morales, Jaime Alfonso Roche Rodriguez
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13978
Impacts of COVID-19 on Household Welfare in Tunisia
Deeksha Kokas, Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Abdel Rahmen El Lahga, Vibhuti Mendiratta
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13804
Human Capital Development: New Evidence on the Production of Socio-Emotional Skills
Mark Mitchell, Marta Favara, Catherine Porter, Alan Sanchez
published online in: Journal of Human Resources, 06 June 2023, 1120-11342R
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13577
Within-Country Poverty Convergence: Evidence from Mexico
Luis-Felipe López-Calva, Eduardo Ortiz-Juarez, Carlos Rodriguez Castelan
published in: Empirical Economics, 2022, 62, 2547–2586
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13404
Changes in Female Employment in Mexico: Demographics, Economics, and Policies
Gladys Lopez-Acevedo, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Mexico Alberto Vergara Bahena, Diego Cardozo Medeiros
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13082
Accounting for Wealth Concentration in the US
Barıș Kaymak, David Leung, Markus Poschke
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13070
Was Falling Inequality in All Latin American Countries a Data-Driven Illusion? Income Distribution and Mobility Patterns in Uruguay 2009-2016
Gabriel Burdin, Mauricio De Rosa, Andrea Vigorito, Joan Vilá
revised version published as 'Falling inequality and the growing capital income share: Reconciling divergent trends in survey and tax data' in: World Development, 2022, 152, 105783
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12111
Does Universalization of Health Work? Evidence from Health Systems Restructuring and Expansion in Brazil
Sonia R. Bhalotra, Rudi Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11039
Active Labour Market Programmes in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from a Meta Analysis
Veronica Escudero, Jochen Kluve, Elva López Mourelo, Clemente Pignatti
published in: Journal of Development Studies, 2019, 55 (12), 2644 - 2661
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9439
Hurricane Watch: Battening Down the Effects of the Storm on Local Crop Production
Nekeisha Spencer, Solomon Polachek
published in: Ecological Economics, 2015, 120, 234-240.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7673
Industry-Wide Work Rules and Productivity: Evidence from Argentine Union Contract Data
Carlos Lamarche
published in: IZA Journal of Labor & Development, 2013, 2:11
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7236
The Distribution of Income in Central America
T. H. Gindling, Juan Diego Trejos
revised version published in: Salvador Marti i Puig; Diego Sanchez-Ancochea (eds.), The Handbook of Central American Governance, London: Routledge, 2014, 75-94.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6827
A Discrete Choice Approach to Estimating Armed Conflicts' Casualties: Revisiting the Numbers of a 'Truth Commission'
Silvio Rendon
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6806
Evolution of Teachers' Salaries in Latin America at the Turn of the 20th Century: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Alejandra Mizala, Hugo R. Nopo
published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6161
The Measurement of Educational Inequality: Achievement and Opportunity
Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Jérémie Gignoux
published in: World Bank Economic Review, 2014, 28(2), 210-246
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5947
Teachers' Salaries in Latin America: How Much Are They (Under or Over) Paid?
Alejandra Mizala, Hugo R. Nopo
published in: International Journal of Educational Development, 2016, 47, 20-32
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5917
Access to Justice and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from Brazil's Special Civil Tribunals
Guilherme Lichand, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Law and Economics, 2014, 57 (2), 459-499
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5889
China's Emergence in the World Economy and Business Cycles in Latin America
Ambrogio Cesa-Bianchi, M. Hashem Pesaran, Alessandro Rebucci, TengTeng Xu
published in: Filippo di Mauro and Hashem Pesaran (eds.), The GVAR Handbook: Structure and Applications of a Macro Model of the Global Economy for Policy Analysis, Oxford University Press, 2013, 195–211
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5568
Remittances and Income Smoothing
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Susan Pozo
published in: American Economic Review, 2011, 101 (3), 582-587
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5086
Evolution of Gender Wage Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to
Hugo R. Nopo, Alejandro Hoyos
published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5085
New Century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Wage Gaps in Latin America
Hugo R. Nopo, Juan Pablo Atal, Natalia Winder
published also as 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', Latin American Development Forum;. © Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank and the World Bank, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5073
The Persistent Gender Earnings Gap in Colombia, 1994-2006
Alejandro Hoyos, Hugo R. Nopo, Ximena Peña
published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean', World Bank Publications, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4779
Learning from Latin America's Experience: Europe's Failure in the "Lisbon Process"
Arno Tausch, Almas Heshmati
published in: Alternatives, Turkish Journal of International Relations, 2010, 9(4), 3-90.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4486
SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America
Pablo Ibarrarán, Alessandro Maffioli, Rodolfo Stucchi
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4371
A Cohort Analysis of Labor Participation in Mexico, 1987-2009
Robert Duval Hernández, Pedro Orraca Romano
published in: El Trimestre Económico, 2011, 78 (2), 343-375
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4213
The Role of "Skill Enhancing Trade" in Brazil: Some Evidence from Microdata
Bruno Cesar Araújo, Francesco Bogliacino, Marco Vivarelli
published in: CEPAL Review, 2012, 105, 157-171
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4119
Evaluating the Impact of Community-Based Health Interventions: Evidence from Brazil's Family Health Program
Romero Rocha, Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Health Economics, 2010, 19 (S1), 126-158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3807
Adding Rungs to the Exporting Ladder: Plant-Level Exporting Dynamics and Total Factor Productivity Growth
Alexandru Voicu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3657
Migration, Remittances and Children’s Schooling in Haiti
Catalina Amuedo-Dorantes, Annie Georges, Susan Pozo
The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, 2010, 630 (1), 224-244.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3207
The NAFTA Tide: Lifting the Larger and Better Boats
Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu
revised version published in: Journal of International Trade and Economic Development, 2011, 20 (4), 467 - 505
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3184
Earnings Mobility in Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela: Testing the Divergence of Earnings and the Symmetry of Mobility Hypotheses
Gary S. Fields, Robert Duval Hernández, Samuel Freije-Rodriguez, Maria Laura Sanchez Puerta
published in: Journal of Economic Inequality, 2015, 13, 103-128.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3047
Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants
Ricardo A. López, Jens Suedekum
published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2009, 49 (4), 721-747
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3027
Is Child Labor Harmful? The Impact of Working Earlier in Life on Adult Earnings
Patrick M. Emerson, André Portela Souza
published in: Economic Development and Cultural Change, 2011, 59 (2), 345 - 385
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2771
Health and the Evolution of Welfare across Brazilian Municipalities
Rodrigo R. Soares
published in: Journal of Development Economics, 2007, 84(2), 590–608
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2698
The Gender Wage Gap in Chile 1992-2003 from a Matching Comparisons Perspective
Hugo R. Nopo
published in: 'New Century, Old Disparities. Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and the Caribbean'. World Bank Publications, 2012
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1028
Education, Governance and Trade-Related Technology Diffusion in Latin America
Maurice Schiff, Yanling Wang
published in: El Trimestre Economico, 2010, 302 (2)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 993
Total Factor Productivity Growth and Job Turnover in Mexican Manufacturing Plants in the 1990s
Angel Calderón-Madrid, Alexandru Voicu
IZA Discussion Paper No. 981
Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
Hugo R. Nopo
published in: Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008, 90 (2), 290-299
IZA Discussion Paper No. 214
Family Structure and Female Labour Supply in Mexico City
Xiaodong Gong, Arthur van Soest
published in: Journal of Human Resources, 2002, 37(1), 163-191
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