Purpose This paper aims to focus on the effects of human capital composition, innovation
portfolio and size on manufacturing firms' performance. Moreover, it seeks to empirically …

Research on the politics of skills formation in Latin America is severely underdeveloped.
This article offers a novel characterisation of the supply of skills in the region or 'skills supply …

Purpose Firms are the primary producers of innovations, and understanding how these
agents acquire, update and manage the knowledge of their employees is central to …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for
designing effective training programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at …

Este libro desea reflejar el paso de la política de innovación en América Latina y el Caribe
(ALC) hacia una etapa de creciente sofisticación y de mayor impacto sobre el desarrollo …

This article provides an analysis of laws across all 193 United Nations countries that protect
workers from discrimination in access to employer‐provided training. We assessed the …

Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity--and when
productivity is critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and …

The low productivity of Latin American and Caribbean economies has been acknowledged
as a serious problem that calls for detailed analyses and appropriate and timely responses …

† The study of innovation in Latin American firms has concentrated almost exclusively on the
determinants and impacts of innovation investments and outputs. Less attention has been …

El documento consta de dos partes. En la primera parte se discute la evidencia sobre
formación de habilidades socioemocionales en ALC. Teniendo en cuenta que la literatura …