Restructuring and changing market conditions in the Brazilian auto components industry

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SMEs in the environmental goods and services market: identifying areas of opportunity, policies and instruments: case studies: Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Mexico

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Health benefits guarantees in Latin America: equity and quasi market restructuring at the beginning of the millennium

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Planning and the market during the next ten years in Latin America

Sostiene que la necesidad de establecer un justo equilibrio entre mercado y acción estatal, sobre la base de un diagnóstico objetivo de las virtudes y deficiencias de uno y la otra, constituye una de las grandes lecciones de la experiencia económica de la posguerra para el futuro de las relaciones entre planificación y mercado.

Adjusting power between the State and the market

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Argentina: households and labour market changes (2004-2009)

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Unemployment, macroeconomic policy and labor market flexibility: Argentina and Mexico in the 1990s

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Motherhood wage penalties and labour market segmentation: Evidence from Argentina

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A comparative analysis of productivity in Brazilian and Mexican manufacturing industries

This article analyses productivity trends in Brazilian and Mexican manufacturing industries between 1995 and 2009, a period in which international competition intensified sharply. A total of 14 manufacturing industries are considered, using two methods based on: (i) the Leontief (1951) model to measure the consumption of intermediate goods used in production; and (ii) the analysis of total factor productivity (TFP). The studies performed show that manufacturing trends have diverged in the two countries. In Mexico, an increased need for imported goods and services was offset by a reduction in domestic goods and service requirements, and an increase in the TFP of production. In the case of Brazil, the fact that manufactured goods markets are more isolated from foreign trade seems to have contributed to a weak productivity performance.

Informality and labour market segmentation: the case of Argentina

The document evaluates the presence of segmentation in the Argentinean labour market. The analysis is centred on the comparison of the earnings of formal and informal workers. Two different approaches to the definition of informality are used. The existence of a formal premium is tested using dynamic data and semiparametric techniques. The period analysed is 1996-2006 for all urban surveyed areas. Our results support the segmentation hypothesis for the Argentine urban labour market: workers with similar probabilities of entering/exiting across sectors obtain different earnings.

Latin America and the Caribbean and the European Union: striving for a renewed partnership

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Inclusion of the European Nordic model in the debate concerning social protection reform: the long-term development of Nordic welfare systems (1890-2005) and their transferability to Latin America in the twenty-first century

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European integration and Latin American trade

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