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In this paper, we discuss several aspects related to innovation and entrepreneurship in Latin America (LATAM). First, we document how LATAM lags behing high-income economies using various innovation indicators and how heterogeneity is a relevant issue for the region. Then, we review the main research topics related to innovation and entrepreneurship covered by economic academic research focused on the region. Within this context, we summarize the main results and contribution of the selected papers for this special issue. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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As complex migration trajectories become increasingly more common, understanding potential protective factors of symptoms of depression is critical. Therefore, the aim of this paper was to understand how social support and religion may be associated with better outcomes for migrants' mental health among Haitian migrants at different points in their intricate migration trajectories. Through a quantitative cross-sectional study using a non-probabilistic sampling, we surveyed 405 Haitian migrants in Santiago, Chile (n=207), and Tijuana, Mexico (n=198). Bivariate analyses revealed that participants in Chile had a longer time post-migration (4.6 years) than those in Mexico (3.7 months) (Chi-square p<0.001). Multivariable logistic regression findings confirm social support and religion are protective factors of depression symptoms but differ depending on the point in the migration trajectory. Having someone to trust was a significant protective factor for Haitian migrants in Chile (OR= 0.187, 95% CI 0.054 - 0.646, p=0.008) and Mexico (OR=0.080, 95% CI 0.007 - 0.858, p=0.037). Identifying with a religion reduced the odds of depressive symptoms by 60.3% for those in Chile (95% CI 0.170 - 0.923, p=0.032) but not in Mexico. Findings support re-classifying protective factors such as social support as dynamic, highlighting experiences in each migration step, rather than linear or non-static. Findings provide insight into how to best prevent and treat mental health throughout migrants' diverse journeys. Ideally, future longitudinal studies should explore the nuances of social support during different migration phases in Latin America and their relation to mental health outcomes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This paper evaluates the impacts of quality management tools on the labor productivity of companies in Peru for the period 2014-2019 based on causal Machine Learning (ML) techniques (MLC), which reduce or eliminate three potential problems: the endogeneity of the variables of interest, the existence of confusing variables (confounding) and overfitting due to the introduction of many control variables. Using the National Survey of Companies (INEI-ENE 2023), the evaluation indicates that quality control tools affect the productivity of formal companies, particularly large and medium-sized companies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the past decades, intangibles assets have become an important source of productivity and economic growth in developed countries. Despite the transforming properties of intangibles across economies and the large and dynamic literature on the impact of intangible investments on productivity growth in frontier countries, there is not much evidence for the Latin America context. This paper contributes to the empirical literature on intangible investments along various dimensions. First, we make use of a large firm-level longitudinal data set from Peru, a Latin America middle income country, which contains separated information on intangible assets, which allow us to measure the impact of them on both wages and productivity at the firm level. Second, the analysis at the firm level and the panel structure of the data allows us to control for the endogeneity of variable inputs applying different control function approaches. In addition, the production function estimates provide us with a measure of unobservables, which we include in the wage equation to retrieve consistent estimates for the impact of intangible assets on wages. Third, our data allow us to explore how the impact of intangibles on wages and productivity is affected by the differences in the composition of the bundle of intangibles, changes in the product mix at the firm level and for the presence of imperfect competition in the labor market. We find that an increase in the share of intangible assets by one standard deviation is associated with 6.8% to 7.2% higher total factor productivity, depending on the model's specification. We also find that the capital productivity premium of intangible assets over tangible ones is substantial with estimates suggesting that intangibles are up to 2 times more productive than tangible assets. We also find that this capital productivity premium is not entirely offset by an increase in wages. Finally, we conclude that the main channels for appropriability are the specificity of the ideas generated by intangible investments at the firm level and the wage compression due to imperfect competition in the labor market. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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