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Distributive implications of fertility changes in Latin America
Badaracco, Nicolás; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, … - 2016
Fertility rates significantly fell over the last decades in Latin America. In order to assess the extent to which these … microdata from national household surveys from seven Latin American countries. We find that changes in fertility rates were … fertility implied smaller families and hence larger per capita incomes. Lower fertility also fostered labor force participation …
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Analysis of Latin American fertility in terms of probable social classes
Castro, Andres - 2020
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Social policy and structural heterogeneity in Latin America : the turning point of the 21st century
Lavinas, Lena; Simões, André - In: Revista de economia contemporânea : publication of the … 21 (2017) 2, pp. 1-35
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The evolution of inequality in Latin America in the 21st century : what are the patterns, drivers and causes?
Bogliacino, Francesco; Rojas Lozano, Daniel - 2017
In this article, we show the evolution of inequality for the largest economies of the Latin American region in the 21st century, with separate consideration of income and wealth. We analyse the drivers of the changes in inequality and possible underlying causes, including the role of the new...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012112403
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Social policy in Mexico and Argentina
Tepepa, Martha - 2019
This paper is a comparison between two programs implemented to combat poverty in Latin America: Prospera (Prosper) in Mexico and Asignación Universal por Hijo (Universal Assignment for Child) in Argentina. The first section offers a review of the emergence of the welfare state, examining...
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The deepening of inequalities in Latin America during and after the pandemic
Palacio Ludeña, Maria Gabriela; Pabón, Fabio Andrés Díaz - 2021
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The tragedy of clientelism : opting children out
Ronconi, Lucas; Zarazaga, Rodrigo - 2017
Governments in new democracies launch social policies with the purported goal of alleviating the effects of poverty among the most vulnerable households, usually low income families with children. However, this goal is can be thwarted by the clientelistic distribution of social policies'...
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Ageing in Latin America and the Caribbean : inclusion and rights of older persons : report of Latin America and the Caribbean for the fourth review and appraisal of the Madrid Inte...
Regional Intergovernmental Conference on Ageing and the …; … - 2022
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Financing care systems and policies in Latin America and the Caribbean : contributions for a sustainable recovery with gender equality : XV Regional Conference on Women in Latin Am...
Scuro Somma, Lucía (ed.); Alemany, Cecilia (ed.);  … - Regional Conference on Women in Latin America and the …; … - 2022
In Latin America and the Caribbean, care has gradually been placed at the centre of public agendas, albeit unevenly, as a result of growing political commitments, as well as the work of women’s movements and feminist economic studies. These contributions have focused on the need to reorganize...
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