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Establishing a causal relationship between health and productivity is not straightforward. On one hand, higher income individuals invest more in health: as their income grows, they invest in better diets and health care....

Causalidad entre salud y productividad no resulta directa de establecer. Por un lado, mayores ingresos pueden trasladarse en una dieta de mejor calidad. Por el otro, es probable que un trabajador saludable sea más produ...

This paper investigates the effect of changes in payroll taxes on wages and employment in Argentina. The analysis, based on administrative data, focuses on the impact of a series of major changes in payroll taxes which v...

Este trabajo aporta nuevas evidencias sobre el impacto de las reformas comerciales sobre los salarios. En primer lugar, se introduce un modelo de comercio que combina un mecanismo de fijación de salarios no competitivo ...

This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

The paper demonstrates that two relatively unknown features of the employment cycle in U.S. manufacturing industries can provide a clue to understanding the role of sectorial shocks in the evolution of aggregate employme...

Este trabajo explora la conexión entre el comercio y los resultados laborales en áreas rurales de América Latina al estimar modelos de regresión a nivel de hogar utilizando una combinación de microdatos de 60 encues...

Micro evidence on the relationship between wages and unemployment has been provided recently in a series of contributions by Blanchflower and Oswald (1994, 1995). They argue for the existence of a wage curve linking loca...

Este trabajo documenta los cambios en la distribución del ingreso en Argentina durante las últimas décadas. En este período, la desigualdad aumentó sustancialmente y pese a breves lapsos de crecimiento económico, t...

Este trabajo utiliza simulaciones microeconométricas para caracterizar los cambios distributivos en la economía Boliviana durante 1993-2002 y para evaluar el impacto potencial de escenarios contrafácticos para la pró...

Los cambios en la estructura salarial de un país es un área importante de investigación. Sin embargo, la evidencia empírica sobre la evolución de salarios en los países en desarrollo aún es escasa. En este artícu...

This paper presents a model designed to study the dynamic response of the economy under a fixed peg to the dollar to an international (and exogenous) real appreciation of the dollar, when there is wage and price stickine...

Una gran cantidad de estudios ha intentando estimar el retorno promedio a educarse examinando el efecto que tiene un año adicional de educación sobre la esperanza condicional de salarios. Trabajos internacionales recie...

Considerable effort has been exercised recently in estimating mean returns to education while carefully considering biases arising from unmeasured ability and measurement error. Some of this work has also attempted to de...

This paper examines the impact of access to international agro-manufacture markets on poverty in Argentina. Measures of international market access, such as cuts in tari s and abolition of non-tari measures, can be appro...

In the midst of a serious macroeconomic crisis Argentina implemented a large social program -the Programa Jefes de Hogar (PJH)- that provides cash transfers to unemployed household heads meeting certain criteria. In prac...

Latin American labor markets feature large informal sectors. In practice, however, the simple duality formal-informal has many different shades: firms tend to comply more with certain legislation than with other. Recent ...

Este paper muestra que en un modelo principal-monitor-agente el principal enfrenta un trade-off al elegir el momento en el cual monitorear al agente. Una señal obtenida por un monitor ex ante (supervisor) provee flexibi...

Poverty still is one of the central problems in Latin America and the Caribbean. As measured by international poverty lines, approximately one out of every five people in the region is poor. Consequently, the elimination...

This paper evaluates the unemployment duration and labor mobility using data from the household surveys provided by the National Statistical office (INDEC) for the period 1998 to 2005. The paper aims to understand and ex...

This paper studies the effect of welfare programs on work incentives and the labor supply of adults in developing countries. The document builds on the experimental evaluations of three programs implemented in rural area...

The relationship between co-integration and error correction models, first suggested in Granger (1981), is here extended and used to develop estimation procedures, tests, and empirical examples. If each element of a vect...

Most papers that employ Differences-in-Differences estimation (DD) use many years of data and focus on serially correlated outcomes but ignore that the resulting standard errors are inconsistent. To illustrate the severi...

The core methods in today's econometric toolkit are linear regression for statistical control, instrumental variables methods for the analysis of natural experiments, and differences-in-differences methods that exploit p...