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Working Paper
Heterogeneous informality in Costa Rica and Nicaragua

Informal work is often considered a place of employment for marginalized and vulnerable workers who have been rationed out of preferred formal work...

Informality Developing countries Costa Rica
Working Paper
Self-selection of Mexican migrants in the presence of random shocks: Evidence from the Panic of 1907

Using height as a proxy for physical productivity of labour, this paper estimates the selection of Mexican migration to the United States at the beginning of the flow (1906–08), and it exploits a natural experiment of history to evaluate the im...

Labour migration Self-selection International migration
Journal Article
Exporting and Productivity: Learning from Vietnam

Part of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete

Learning by exporting Self-selection Productivity
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The Dynamics of Exporting and Innovation: Evidence from the Tunisian Manufacturing Sector

Part of Journal Special Issue Learning to Compete

Manufacturing industries Learning by exporting Self-selection
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