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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...

In this paper we study the regional evolution of unemployment in Argentina for the period 1980-1997. We show that its regional unemployment structure is not very persistent. We then apply panel data unit root tests to sh...

Utilizando datos de la Encuesta de Hogares para el periodo 1995-2001, se estudian los factores que explican el diferencial entre las tasas de desempleo de hombres y mujeres en Argentina. Se encuentra que este diferencial...

Argentina is going through its deepest crisis since it was established as a modern state on late 19th Century. This situation is not different to that which prevails in other countries in Latin America, so the crisis is ...

We apply a variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed in Bourguignon et al. (1998) to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in the period 1986-1998 in the Greater Buenos...

Aplicamos una variante de la metodología microeconométrica de la descomposición propuesta en Bourguignon et al. (1998) para determinar la importancia de los varios factores que afectaron la desigualdad en el período ...

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...

University entrepreneurial ecosystems are key drivers of regional development and technological innovation in Latin America—a region still marked by poverty, unemployment, and inequality (Crespi & Tacsir, 2011). Innova...

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...

This paper develops direct tests for evaluating the performance of two types of emergency employment programs put in place in Chile since 1999. Our results suggest: First, decentralized and market-driven programs (subsid...

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...

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...

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...

Bowling Alone: America’s Declining Social Capital Robert D. Putnam (bio) Many students of the new democracies that have emerged over the past decade and a half have emphasized the importance of a strong and active civi...