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  • Cyclical movements in unemployment and informality in developing countries (English)

    This paper analyzes the cyclical properties of worker flows in Brazil and Mexico, two important developing countries with large unregulated or “informal” sectors. It generates three stylized facts that...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4648 Document Date: June 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Maloney,William F.

  • The determinants of rising informality in Brazil : Evidence from gross worker flows (English)

    This paper studies gross worker flows to explain the rising informality in Brazilian metropolitan labor markets from 1983 to 2002. This period covers two economic cycles, several stabilization plans, a...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4375 Document Date: October 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Goni Pacchioni,Edwin,Maloney,William F.

  • Informality : exit and exclusion : Informalidad : escape y exclusion (Spanish)

    Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40008 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Fajnzylber,Pablo,Maloney,William F.,Mason,Andrew D.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Saavedra,Jaime

  • Informality : exit and exclusion (English)

    Informality: exit and exclusion analyzes informality in Latin America, exploring root causes and reasons for and implications of its growth. The authors use two distinct but complementary lenses: informality...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 40008 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias Diaz,Omar S.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Fajnzylber,Pablo,Maloney,William F.,Mason,Andrew D.,Perry, Guillermo E.,Saavedra,Jaime

  • Pending issues in protection, productivity growth, and poverty reduction (English)

    This paper selectively synthesizes much of the research on Latin American and Caribbean labor markets in recent years. Several themes emerge that are particularly relevant to ongoing policy dialogues...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3799 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Arias, Omar,Blom,Andreas,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cunningham,Wendy,Fiszbein,Ariel,Lopez-Acevedo,Gladys C.,Maloney,William F.,Saavedra,Jaime,Sanchez-Paramo, Carolina,Santamaria,Mauricio,Siga,Lucas

  • Spatial dimensions of trade liberalization and economic convergence : Mexico 1985-2002 (English)

    This paper studies the spatial dimension of growth in Mexico over the past three decades. The literature on regional economic growth shows a decrease in regional dispersion from 1970 to 1985, and a sharp...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3744 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aroca-Gonzalez,Patricio Alejandro,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Maloney,William F.

  • Patenting and research and development : a global view (English)

    Using a new global data base on patents and innovation inputs, the authors examine the process of knowledge creation measured by the dynamic relationship between research and development and U.S. patents...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3739 Document Date: October 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Maloney,William F.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Lederman,Daniel

  • Spatial dimensions of trade liberalization and economic convergence : Mexico 1985-2002 (English)

    This article employs established techniques from the spatial economics literature to identify regional patterns of income and growth in Mexico and to examine how they have changed over the period spanned...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 77498 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aroca-Gonzalez,Patricio Alejandro,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Maloney,William F.

  • The World Bank economic review 19 (3) (English)

    Tracking NAFTA's shadow 10 years on -- introduction to the symposium, by Daniel Lederman and Luis Serven. Spatial dimensions of trade liberalization and economic convergence -- Mexico 1985-2002, by Patricio...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 35338 Document Date: September 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Aroca, Patricia,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cadot,Olivier,Carrere,Celine,Lederman,Daniel,Maloney,William F.,Portugal Perez,Luis Alberto,Serven,Luis,De Melo,Jaime A. P.

  • The World Bank economic review 18 (2) (English)

    Do macroeconomics crises always slow human capital accumulations? By Nobert R. Schady. The distribution of income shocks during crises: an application of quantile analysis to Mexico, 1992-95, by William...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 30182 Document Date: January 1, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Blunch,Niels-Hugo,Bosch Mossi,Mariano,Cranfield,John Andrea Lionel,Cunningham, Wendy V.,Hertel,Thomas W.,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Ivanic,Maros,Kaufman, Daniel,Kraay,Aart C.,Maloney,William F.,Mastruzzi,Massimo,Ng,Francis K. T.,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Preckel,Paul V.,Schady, Nobert R.,Verner,Dorte