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Talent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America

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dc.contributor.authorSinha, Rishabh
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-03T16:02:13Z
dc.date.available2020-09-03T16:02:13Z
dc.date.issued2020-09
dc.description.abstractThis paper examines the post-reform economic growth in three Central American economies -- Costa Rica, El Salvador, and Panama. From 1995 to 2015, each economy witnessed phenomenal shifts in labor market participation and occupational distribution of women. If the innate talent for a job did not change differently across genders, the occupational changes suggest that many talented women in the mid-1990s were in professions that did not conform to their comparative advantage. The paper studies the evolution of the occupational distribution using a model of occupational choice in which three forces create frictions to efficient allocation -- discrimination in labor markets, obstacles to human capital accumulation, and preferences (or social norms). The analysis shows that the underlying improvement in talent allocation over the past two decades had a quantitative impact on growth in Costa Rica and Panama. Decomposing the aggregate effects reveals that the gains were driven by declines in obstacles to human capital accumulation. In contrast, shifts in labor market discrimination created headwinds for expansion. The aggregate effects in El Salvador are relatively mild and noisy to the extent that the qualitative effect is difficult to pin down. Nonetheless, the analysis finds that the preference for market work has increased sharply in El Salvador for both genders and has proved to be a drag on growth.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/249921599070476381/Talent-Allocation-and-Post-Reform-Growth-in-Central-America
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9380
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/34427
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesPolicy Research Working Paper;No. 9380
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectECONOMIC REFORM
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET
dc.subjectLABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectFEMALE LABOR FORCE PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectHIRING BIAS
dc.subjectLABOR MARKET DISCRIMINATION
dc.subjectPREFERENCES AND NORMS
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL ACCUMULATION
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectOCCUPATIONAL DISTRIBUTION
dc.subjectSOCIAL NORMS
dc.subjectRESOURCE ALLOCATION
dc.subjectLABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.titleTalent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central Americaen
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okr.crossref.titleTalent Allocation and Post-Reform Growth in Central America
okr.date.disclosure2020-09-02
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Policy Research Working Paper
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/249921599070476381/Talent-Allocation-and-Post-Reform-Growth-in-Central-America
okr.guid249921599070476381
okr.identifier.doi10.1596/1813-9450-9380
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okr.identifier.internaldocumentum32374891
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okr.region.administrativeLatin America & Caribbean
okr.region.countryCosta Rica
okr.region.countryEl Salvador
okr.region.countryPanama
okr.region.geographicalCentral America
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okr.statistics.dr249921599070476381
okr.statistics.drstats876
okr.topicGender::Gender and Development
okr.topicGender::Gender and Rural Development
okr.topicMacroeconomics and Economic Growth::Economic Growth
okr.topicPrivate Sector Development::Enterprise Development & Reform
okr.topicRural Development::Rural Labor Markets
okr.topicSocial Protections and Labor::Labor Markets
okr.unitDevelopment Research Group, Development Economics
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