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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 Family in Flux: Household Decision-Making in Latin America

Duryea, Suzanne; Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel; … - Inter-American Development Bank

This book breaks away from the exclusively macroeconomic focus of development studies to bring the spotlight to the place where decisions are made: households. Complementing this microeconomic view with an aggregate approach, this volume uncovers clues to declining fertility, skyrocketing female...

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Entrepreneurship in Latin America: A Step Up the Social Ladder?

Lora, Eduardo (contributor); … - Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American …

This book looks at the potential and the limits of policies to promote entrepreneurship as an important vehicle for social mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as steps to remove the constrains that hamper entrepreneurship. This volume assesses the relevant literature on...

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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...

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Should Central Banks Target Happiness?: Evidence from Latin America

Ruprah, Inder jit; Luengas, Pavel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009

It has become common wisdom amongst monetary policy professionals that central banks in Latin America should adopt inflation targeting. Pure inflation targeting implicitly assumes a social loss welfare function dependent on only inflation. In this working paper, using subjective well-being...

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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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Labor Markets and Income Support: What Did We Learn from the Crises?

Márquez, Gustavo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

The adoption of emergency employment and short-term training programs to provide income support to the population … affected by the episodes of economic volatility since 1995 reveals the failure of the traditional, labor law-based income … better designed mechanism to protect workers against the effects of macroeconomic volatility. The paper argues for an income …

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The Impact of Public and Private Job Training in Colombia

Medina, Carlos; Núñez, Jairo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005

In this working paper, the authors present various matching estimators of the impact on earnings for individuals who attended public and private job training programs in Colombia, namely the National Learning Service (SENA). The authors estimate propensity scores by controlling for the wide...

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Geographical Exclusion in Rural Areas of El Salvador: Its Impact on Labor Market Outcomes

Andrade, Ana Regina Vides de; Palomo, Anabella Lardé de; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

's rural areas on three labor market outcomes: labor force participation decision, sector of employment, and labor income. In … impact on men's labor income. …

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The Role of Social Networks in the Economic Opportunities of Bolivian Women

Contreras, Dante; Kruger, Diana; Ochoa, Marcelo; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007

This paper explores the role of social networks in determining the participation of Bolivian women in income … its relative importance with respect to other individual characteristics, such as education or number of children in the …

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