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Consumption rigths: a market mechanism to redistribute wealth

Jorge Rivera C.; Martínez, Francisco - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2005

In an exchange economy with only private consumption goods we propose acompetitive mechanism to reach any income distribution. We introduce the socalled consumption rights, which is a real parameter that modifies thebudgetaryconstraint of individuals but does not participate in the utility...

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Migration’s Income and Poverty Impact

Schiff, Maurice - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2006

In estimating the impact of migration on income and poverty, existing studies have typically overlooked the fact that …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008472133

Poverty and Inequality in Chile 1990-1998: Learning from Microeconomic Simulations

Bravo, David; Contreras, Dante; Urzúa, Sergio - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2002

This paper contributes to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics in poverty and … income distribution and poverty would change as a result of a different set of microsimulations. In particular, the … distributional structure of 1998 is imposed in 1990. The evidence suggest that while poverty responds strongly to the simulation …

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Crecimiento Pro Pobre en Chile

Contreras, Dante; Cooper, Ryan; Neilson, Christopher - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

Utilizando datos de panel para el periodo 1996-2001 y datos de corte transversal para los años 1990 y 2003, este artículo evalúa si el crecimiento en Chile ha sido “pro pobre”. Se emplean dos estrategias. Primero se estima la “Curva de Incidencia del Crecimiento” y luego se estima...

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The Evolution of Opportunities for Children in Chile 1990-2006

Contreras, Dante; Larragaña, Osvaldo; Puentes, Esteban; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2009

In this article we apply some recently developed methodologies (Paes de Barros et al, 2008) tomeasure the evolution of the inequality of opportunity in Chile in the 1990-2006 period. Theopportunities are measured as intermediate outcomes for children such as access to preschool,access to...

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The relationship between Inequality of Outcomes and Inequality of Opportunities in a high-inequality country: The case of Chile

Errázuriz, Javier Núñez; Tartakowsky, Andrea - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2009

Based on the methodology developed by Bourguignon, Melendez and Ferreira (2005) we explore the extent to which income inequality in Chile is associated with inequality of observed exogenous circumstances of origin, which shape individuals “opportunities” to pursue their chosen life plans. We...

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Inequality of Opportunities in the Educational Attainment of Chilean Students

Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Telias, Amanda - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2010

This study measures the contribution of inequality of opportunities on the educational attainment of Chilean students, captured through the SIMCE test scores. For this, it employs a recently introduced methodology that quantifies the effect of exogenous and endogenous factors on socioeconomic...

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Evidence for inequality of Opportunities. A Cohort analysis for Chile

Contreras, Dante; Larragaña, Osvaldo; Puentes, Esteban; … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2009

In this paper we estimate the impact of inequality of opportunity on inequality of income in the Chilean economy. We focus on the distribution of individual labor income. It is found that the share ofoverall inequality which is due to inequality of opportunities is relatively high in Chile, but...

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Residential Segregation Effects on Poor’s Opportunities in Chile

Jiménez, Osvaldo Larrañaga; Riveros, Claudia Sanhueza - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

This paper aims to identify whether or not the spatial concentration of poverty –also called economic residential …

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Remittances and Poverty in Migrants’ Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines.

Alvear, Claudia Martínez; Yang, Dean - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Economía y Negocios - 2007

these remittance flows affect poverty andinequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, we take advantage … shocks, aggregate poverty rates decline even in households withoutmigrant members. However, we find no strong evidence of …

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