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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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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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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...

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Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia

Arbeláez, María Angélica; Steiner, Roberto; Becerra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

and credit is explained by demand for low-income housing. …

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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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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 …

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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 …

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