Documentos e informes
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The home as factory floor : employment and remuneration of home-based workers (Árabe)
Home-based work, defined as nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3295 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V., Gomez, Carlos Ramos
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The home as factory floor : employment and remuneration of home-based workers (Inglés)
Home-based work, defined as nonprofessionals who perform market work from their homes, is an increasingly recognized form of employment in Latin America. The majority of the research on this segment of...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS3295 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2004 Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V., Gomez, Carlos Ramos
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The distribution of income shocks during crises: an application of quantile analysis to Mexico, 1992-95 (Vol. 201) (Inglés)
Moving beyond the simple comparisons of averages typical of most analyses of household income shocks, this article employs quantile analysis to generate a complete distribution of such shocks by type of...
Tipo de documento: Artículo de periódico Número del informe: 77470 Fecha del documento: 1 de mayo de 2004 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Maloney,William F.,Cunningham, Wendy V.,Bosch Mossi,Mariano
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The World Bank economic review 18 (2) (Inglés)
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...
Tipo de documento: Publicación Número del informe: 30182 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2004 Autor: 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
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Sectoral allocation by gender of Latin American workers over the liberalization period of the 1990s (Inglés)
The recent restructuring of Latin American economies has renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization, on labor markets, and on the gender division of labor. The author does not attempt to establish...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS2742 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 2001 Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V.
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Breadwinner or caregiver? - how household role affects labor choices in Mexico (Inglés)
Recent volatility in the Mexican economy, has required households to alter patterns of participation in the labor force, voluntarily or not. The author uses panel data to examine patterns of labor force...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS2743 Fecha del documento: 31 de diciembre de 2001 Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V.
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Sectoral allocation by gender in the 1990s: evidence from Argentina, Brazil, and Costa Rica (Inglés)
The recent economic restructuring in Latin American economies has led to renewed interest in the effects of trade liberalization on labor markets and its effects on the gender division of labor. This paper...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo Número del informe: 36150 Fecha del documento: 1 de enero de 2000 Tipo de divulgación: Disclosed Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V.
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Heterogeneity among Mexico's micro-enterprises - an application of factor and cluster analysis (Inglés)
A long tradition sees the small firm sector as a holding pattern for workers queuing for jobs in the formal sector of a segmented labor market. An alternative "entrepreneurial" view suggests that many...
Tipo de documento: Documento de trabajo sobre investigaciones relativas a políticas Número del informe: WPS1999 Fecha del documento: 31 de octubre de 1998 Autor: Cunningham, Wendy V.,Maloney, William F.