List of acronyms and abbreviations
Average labour unit
Area under the curve
Central Bank of Costa Rica
Business Operations Survey
Business Structure Database
Constant elasticity of substitution
Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica
Development Bank of Japan
Earnings before interest and tax
Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean
European Free Trade Association
Employment Relations Act
European Union
Foreign direct investment
Free trade agreement
Free trade zone
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade
Gross domestic product
Global financial crisis
Goods and services tax
Herfindahl-Hirschman
Household Labour Force Survey
Institute for Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances
International System of Industrial Classification
Information technology
Information Technology Agreement
Job creation rate
Job destruction rate
Japan Industrial Productivity
Longitudinal Business Database
Labour Cost Index
Linked employer-employee data
Likelihood ratio
Merger and acquisition
Micro, small and medium-sized enterprise
National Accounts
Nomenclature générale des activités économiques dans les communautés européennes
Net employment growth
Ordinary least squares
Pay as you earn
Quarterly Employment Survey
Research and development
Receiver operating characteristic
Standard and Poor
Small and medium-sized enterprise
Total factor productivity
Trade in Value-Added
United Kingdom
United States
Value-added tax
Variance-covariance matrix of the estimator
World Trade Organization