Similar Search Results

Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

definitions of middle-class using data from the 2007 World Gallup Poll. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class … fact that self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal capabilities …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943989

Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944419

Is Entrepreneurship a Channel of Social Mobility in Latin America?

Castellani, Francesca; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2013

income persistence coefficients estimated with pseudo-panel data for Colombia, Ecuador, and Uruguay indicate that … indicate the direction of such mobility, the estimates of income differentials between entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs for …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944085

Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944347

A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Powell, Andrew; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944422

Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995

Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

The purpose of this paper is to describe the performance of the Venezuelan labor market in the period between 1982 and 1995, and to analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This period analyzed is a convulsed one, one within Venezuela that suffered from the consequences of both changes in...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357923

Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357929

Poverty and the Employment Problem in Argentina

Márquez, Gustavo; Morley, Samuel A. - Inter-American Development Bank - 1997

suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357936

Intergenerational Social Mobility in Latin America: A Review of Existing Evidence Title: Movilidad social intergeneracional en América Latina: Una revision de la evidencia actual

Azevedo, Viviane; Bouillon, César P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

low in the Region. The evidence also suggests high levels of immobility at the income distribution's lower and upper tails …. While intergenerational education mobility has improved in recent decades, which may increase income mobility for younger …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672815

Remittances to Latin America and the Caribbean: Latin American and the Caribbean Foreign-Born Population 14.47 million (Part 4 of 5)

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2000

One-page 2000 census map detailing by region the Latin American and Caribbean populations living in the US.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009198300