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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 Efficient Side of Progressive Income Taxation
Corneo, Giacomo - CESifo - 2000
This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406276
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943582
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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … schooling are the main reason why income distribution has not improved in the 1990s. However, the lack of progress in income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944090
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Savings in Chile: What Went Right?
Morandé, Felipe - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996
Some analysts rank Chile as the only Latin American economy that qualifies as a 'take-off economy,' or development economy. In a sense, Chile's enduring success and proved insulation from the 'Tequila effect' are due to its high national savings. What has made Chile's savings so high? What were...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944299
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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
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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944543
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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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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
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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001
Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672467