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Severance payment programs in Latin America
Latin America stands out among different regions in the world for her high employment termination costs. To this contribute both a high level of severance payments and the existence of overlapping benefits. The effectiveness of these protective measures, however, is limited by the size of the informal sector, which, in turn, may be related to […]
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Planificación familiar y salud materno-infantil en el Perú: menos puede ser mejor
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Measuring the impact of assest complementarities: the case of rural Perú
This paper analyzes three types of public infrastructure and services: “traditional infrastructure”, “human-capital-generating public services” and “information and communication technologies”.
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Working Within Confines: Occupational Segregation By Sex For Three Latin American Countries
The paper assesses the evolution of occupational segregation by sex using comparable data sets for Costa Rica, Ecuador and Uruguay over the 1989-1997 period. The authors estimate segregation indices using two-digit occupational categories for the entire employed labor force and also for sub-samples with different levels of educational attainment. Using a re-sampling technique, the authors estimate […]
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Poverty, health infrastructure and the nutrition of peruvian children
This paper offers empirical evidence on the impact of the expansion in health infrastructure of the 1990s upon child nutrition in Peru, as measured by the height for age z-score.
