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Date issued: Oct 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ronconi, Lucas;Colina, Jorge

En este documento se describen las reformas dirigidas a simplificar el registro laboral y el pago de contribuciones sociales implementadas en Argentina en 2005 y 2007. En base al análisis de la…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Gutierrez, María Elena;Mommens, Xavier

Este estudio tiene como finalidad mostrar cómo los servicios de las microfinanzas pueden sufrir los impactos del cambio climático, analizar las oportunidades que se presentan para las instituciones…

Date issued: Oct 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Arbeláez, María Angélica;Steiner, Roberto;Becerra, Alejandro;Wills, Daniel

Using the 2003 and 2008 Quality of Life Surveys (QLS) conducted by the National Department of Statistics (DANE), this paper identifies the factors that affect housing tenure decisions in Colombia.…

Date issued: Oct 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Garabato, Natalia;Ramada, Magdalena

This paper analyzes the determinants of housing demand for Uruguay and the extent to which housing policies have an impact on their target population. The paper first analyzes the determinants of…

Date issued: Oct 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Amarante, Verónica;Arim, Rodrigo;Dean, Andrés

This paper considers the main institutional features of the Uruguayan labor market and its recent evolution, with a focus on unemployment. The main policies aimed at protecting workers against…

Date issued: Oct 2011 Generative AI enabled
Author(s): Ronconi, Lucas;Colina, Jorge

This paper describes the reforms aimed at simplifying the administrative procedures for labor registration and the payment of social security contributions that were carried out in Argentina in 2005…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

China's meteoric emergence in the last decade and its profound impact on the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has eclipsed the importance of the region's other…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Mesquita Moreira, Mauricio

China's meteoric emergence in the last decade and its profound impact on the economic performance of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has eclipsed the importance of the region's other…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Alvarez, Roberto;Benavente, José Miguel;Campusano, Rolando;Cuevas, Conrado

This paper compiles and analyzes several sources of information to shed light on the relationship between innovation and employment growth in the manufacturing industry in Chile in the last 15 years…

Date issued: Oct 2011
Author(s): Monge-González, Ricardo;Rodríguez-Álvarez, Juan Antonio;Hewitt, John;Orozco, Jeffrey;Ruiz, Keynor

This paper studies the degree to which innovation by Costa Rican manufacturing firms creates or displaces employment, how different innovation strategies affect employment, and how these effects vary…