Asymmetric and threshold effects of FinTech on poverty in SSA countries

N Emara - Journal of Economic Studies, 2023 - emerald.com
Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the dynamic asymmetric relationship
between financial technology (FinTech) adoption and poverty alleviation on annual data for …

[图书][B] The jobs of tomorrow: Technology, productivity, and prosperity in Latin America and the Caribbean

MA Dutz, RK Almeida, TG Packard - 2018 - books.google.com
While adoption of new technologies is understood to enhance long-term growth and
average per-capita incomes, its impact on lower-skilled workers is more complex and merits …

[PDF][PDF] Beyond the Digital Dividends: Fintech and Extreme Poverty in the Middle East and Africa.

N Emara, M Mohieldin - Topics in Middle Eastern & North African …, 2021 - researchgate.net
This study analyzes the impact of the proliferation of Financial Technology (FinTech) on the
achievability of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with respect to extreme poverty …

Software adoption, employment composition, and the skill content of occupations in chilean firms

RK Almeida, AM Fernandes… - The Journal of …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We contribute to the technology, skills, and jobs debate by exploiting a novel dataset for
Chilean firms between 2007 and 2013, with information on the firms' adoption of complex …

Informality and work status

GS Fields - 2020 - econstor.eu
The most important determinant of households' livelihoods is how much they earn for their
labour. People in informal work are more likely to be low earners, to live in poverty, and to …

Job quality and poverty in Latin America

P Brummund, C Mann… - Review of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Labor market dynamics have played a significant role in the remarkable social gains
experienced in the recent past across Latin America. Assessing quality of employment …

[HTML][HTML] Pobreza multidimensional y mercado laboral en México

R Varela Llamas… - Cuadernos de Economía, 2020 - scielo.org.co
Se analiza la pobreza multidimensional desde la perspectiva del mercado laboral,
considerando las 32 entidades federativas de México durante el periodo 2010-2016. Se …

Does the adoption of complex software impact employment composition and the skill content of occupations? Evidence from Chilean firms

R Almeida, AM Fernandes, M Viollaz… - Evidence from Chilean …, 2017 - papers.ssrn.com
A major concern with the rapid spread of technology is that it replaces some jobs, displacing
workers. However, technology may raise firm productivity, generating more jobs. The paper …

Low-skilled workers and the effects of minimum wage in a developing country: Evidence based on a density-discontinuity approach

S Katzkowicz, G Pedetti, M Querejeta, M Bergolo - World Development, 2021 - Elsevier
We estimated the impact of the minimum wage on wages, unemployment, and formal-
informal sector mobility for women in the domestic-work sector in Uruguay. Applying the …

Educational diversity, organizational structure and innovation performance: Evidence from Uruguayan industry

A Bello-Pintado, C Bianchi - Estudios de economía, 2018 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper analyses the relationship between horizontal educational diversity (HED) and
firm innovation performance, both in the propensity to innovate and the intensity of …