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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944185
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Wealth from health linking social investments to earnings in Latin America
Savedoff, William D. (ed.); Schultz, T. Paul (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013552244
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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653996
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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy
Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320049
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Health and Poverty in Brazil: Estimation by Structural Equation Model with Latent Variables
Giuffrida, Antonio; Iunes, Roberto F.; Savedoff, William D. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2005
Brazil is characterized by large inequalities in income, access to health care, and health status. This paper uses data … from the 1998 Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios to analyze the complex relationships among health, income, health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357933
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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scartascini, Carlos; Funaro, Rita; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895496
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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos
Scartascini, Carlos G.; Duryea, Suzanne; Powell, Andrew; … - Inter-American Development Bank
Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943604
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Income, Deprivation, and Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Evidence from the Gallup World Poll
Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008
of income, multidimensional non-monetary, and subjective deprivation for all countries in the region based on Gallup data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944360