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This study looks at the relationship between the feminization of the labour market —defined as a relative increase in the female labour force participation rate and in the female labour supply as measured in hours— and economic growth in five Latin American countries. On the one hand, these trend...


Vásconez Rodríguez, AlisonEconomic growth and gender inequality: an analysis of panel data for five Latin American countries

In 1994, the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean approved the Regional Programme of Action for Women, whose guidelines remain in force thanks to a decision approved at the ninth Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the Caribbean (Mexico City, 2004), thereby reaffirming their...


Avolio, Beatrice E.Di Laura, Giovanna F.The progress and evolution of women’s participation in production and business activities in South America

This article studies the competitiveness of Colombian agricultural products relative to those of the United States, with a view to assessing the extent to which the free trade agreement between the two countries represents a risk or an opportunity for Colombia. Colombia’s revealed comparative adv...


Stellian, RémiDanna-Buitrago, Jenny PaolaColombian agricultural product competitiveness under the free trade agreement with the United States: analysis of the comparative advantages

This article examines the propositions that wealth inequality supports credit market segmentation and that the financial system may reproduce economic inequality. Specifically, we discuss how the sources of credit and the purposes of borrowing may help perpetuate inequality. In Ecuador, the asset...


Deere, Carmen DianaCatanzarite, Zachary B.Who borrows to accumulate assets? Class, gender and indebtedness in Ecuador’s credit market

Public transport is key to ensuring people’s ability to access the opportunities offered by the city. Unlike other types of transport such as automobiles, public transport is the means that exerts the least monetary pressure on users and most decommodifies mobility. This article analyses the leve...


Hernández, DiegoPublic transport, well-being and inequality: coverage and affordability in the city of Montevideo

This study will analyse the deindustrialization process in El Salvador. Deindustrialization has been a factor in the Latin American countries since the 1980s and contributes to economic stagnation and quality job loss. The first section reviews selected studies in the literature on this subject a...


Cáceres, Luis RenéDeindustrialization and economic stagnation in El Salvador

El paulatino agotamiento de la migración rural-urbana en América Latina y el Caribe conduce al creciente predominio de la migración entre ciudades, fenómeno que ha sido poco teorizado y estudiado empíricamente en la región. Por ello, este trabajo explota los microdatos censales —única fuente exis...


Rodríguez Vignoli, JorgeEfectos de la migración interna sobre el sistema de asentamientos humanos de América Latina

Although, at first glance, it would seem to be a contradiction in terms, official statistics indicate that both unemployment and economic activity in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela are on a steep downward trend. However, a decline in unemployment can, in fact, occur in the midst of an econo...


Ramoni Perazzi, JosefaOrlandoni Merli, GiampaoloTorres Rivas, ElizabethZambrano, AngelAnalysis of the duration of unemployment and outcomes for unemployed persons in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

This article analyses the effects of a rise in the minimum wage on wages and employment in Mexico. The source of variation is the equalization in late 2012 of the minimum wage in two areas of the country. Using the National Occupation and Employment Survey (ENOE), econometric analyses are perform...


Campos, Raymundo M.Esquivel, GerardoSantillán, Alma S.The impact of the minimum wage on income and employment in Mexico

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