Skills, exports, and the wages of five million Latin American workers [PDF]
The returns to schooling or the skill premium is a key parameter in various literatures, including globalization and inequality and international migration.
Brambilla, Irene +3 more
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Should cash transfers be confined to the poor ? implications for poverty and inequality in Latin America [PDF]
This paper compares for 13 Latin American countries the poverty and inequality impacts of cash transfer programs that are given to all children and the elderly (that is,"categorical"transfers), to programs of equal budget that are confined to the poor ...
Acosta, Pablo +2 more
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Teachers'salaries in Latin America : a comparative analysis [PDF]
Data from household surveys of 12 Latin American countries were used to assess how teachers'salaries compare with those of workers in other occupations. The results show that salaries vary among countries, ranging from an apparent 35 percent underpayment
Arends, Mary +2 more
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Los mercados laborales latinoamericanos en los años 90: descifrar la década [PDF]
(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) En este trabajo se analiza el desempeño reciente de los mercados laborales latinoamericanos. Hallamos que los niveles de desempleo van en aumento en la mayoría de los países y subregiones de América Latina.
Carmen Pagés-Serra +2 more
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Sibling Correlations and Social Mobility in Latin America [PDF]
In this paper, social mobility is measured by looking at the extent to which family background determines socioeconomic success. Roughly speaking, social mobility can be measure by means of two distinct types of correlations: intergenerational ...
Alejandro Gaviria, Momi Dahan
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Movilidad intergeneracional en América Latina [PDF]
(Disponible en idioma inglés únicamente) El elevado grado de desigualdad ha sido visto por mucho tiempo como uno de los principales problemas que encaran los países latinoamericanos.
Alejandro Gaviria +2 more
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Using Pseudo-Panels to Measure Income Mobility in Latin America [PDF]
This paper presents a comparative overview of mobility patterns in 14 Latin American countries between 1992 and 2003. Using three alternative econometric techniques on constructed pseudo-panels, the paper provides a set of estimators for the traditional ...
Cuesta, Jose +2 more
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Evolution of Gender Gaps in Latin America at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: An Addendum to "New Century, Old Disparities" [PDF]
This paper complements the findings of Atal, Ñopo and Winder (2009) on gender and ethnic wage gaps for 18 Latin American countries circa 2005 by analyzing gender wage gaps for the same countries between circa 1992 and circa 2007.
Alejandro Hoyos, Hugo Nopo
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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean [PDF]
This paper provides evidence on the incidence of poverty among the elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean, based on household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment, education,
Francisco Haimovich +4 more
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El desempleo en Pereira: ¿sólo cuestión de remesas? [PDF]
Este documento tiene como objetivo establecer las causas que han llevado a Pereira a ubicarse como la ciudad con la tasa de desempleo más alta, entre las 13 principales ciudades de Colombia.
Luis Eduardo Arango +2 more
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