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Regional or educational disparities? : A counterfactual exercise

Duarte, Angelo José Mont'Alverne (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...

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The Brazilian education quality index (IDEB) : measurement and incentives upgrades

Neri, Marcelo Cortes (contributor); … - 2008

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Seletividade e medidas de qualidade da educção brasileira 1995 - 2001

Neri, Marcelo Cortes (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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O tempo das crianças

Neri, Marcelo Cortes (contributor); … - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?

Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank

Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...

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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean

Ñopo, Hugo - Inter-American Development Bank

This book presents a regional overview of gender and ethnic disparities in labor earnings during this last turn of the century. After this introduction, chapter 2 presents the methodology adopted by the book and the data sources employed. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region,...

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Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Espino, Emilio; Rozada, Martín González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

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