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The effects of adult literacy on earnings and employment
(2012-09-12)
This paper provides evidence of the effects of adult literacy on individuals’ income and employability in Brazil based on information obtained from the monthly employment survey (PME). The OLS results indicate that after ...
Deceleration in Female Labor Force Participation in Latin America
(Brookings Institution Press, 2017-11)
After half a century of sustained growth, female labor force participationhas decelerated in Latin America, especially among married vulnerablewomen. Based on a large database of microdata from household surveysthis paper ...
The causal impacts of child labor law in Brazil: some preliminary findings
(Oxford Univ Press, 2017-03-01)
This paper investigates the causal impact of the change in law of December 1998 that increased the minimum legal age of entry into the labor force from 14 to 16. We used a difference-in-differences (DD) approach to estimate ...
Disability and labor market earnings: Physically and mentally disabled earnings gaps in Peru
(Asociación Peruana de Economía, 2017-08)
In Peru, more than one million of people have a disability. This group may face barriers due to low labor force participation and earning rates comparing people without disability. This paper contributes to the literature ...
Learning and earning: payoffs and tradeoffs of early entry into the labor force in Colombia
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, División de Economía, 2022)
Oferta de Força de Trabalho Familiar e Crise Econômica: Brasil me Tropolitano, 1983Oferta de Força de Trabalho Familiar e Crise Econômica: Brasil me Tropolitano, 1983
(Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria, 1990)
Forced migration, female labor force participation, and intra-household bargaining: does conflict empower women?
(Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 2011)
Civilian displacement is a common phenomenon in developing countries confronted with internal conflict. Persons who are forcefully displaced, besides being exposed to direct aggressions, face substantial income losses, ...
The output cost of gender discrimination: a model-based macroeconomics estimate
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2016-02)
We use a growth model in which saving, fertility and labour market participation are endogenous, to quantify the cost that barriers to female labour force participation impose in terms of an economy's output. The model is ...
A dynamic analysis of household decision making in urban Colombia, 1976-1998: changes in household structure, human capital and its returns, and female labor force participation
(Universidad de los Andes, Facultad de Economía, CEDE, 1999)
The objective of this research paper is to examine the changes and dynamics of household structure, human capital and the returns to education, labor earnings, women labor force participation and investment in human capital. ...