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Poverty among the Elderly in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gasparini, Leonardo; Alejo, Javier; Haimovich, Francisco; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2007

household survey microdata from 20 countries. The situation of older people is characterized in terms of income, employment …

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User's Guide to an Early Warning System for Macroeconomic Vulnerability in Latin American Countries

Herrera, Santiago; Garcia, Conrado A. - EconWPA - 2000

The object of this paper is to develop an Early Warning System of Macro Vulnerability for several Latin American countries based on previous work of Kaminsky, Lizondo and Reinhart (1997) and Kaminsky (1998). We build a composite leading indicator that signals macroeconomic vulnerability, showing...

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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?

Gasparini, Leonardo; Horenstein, Matías; Olivieri, Sergio - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006

polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC …

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Growth and Income Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Tornarolli, … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005

processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC …

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Income Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: Evidence from Household Surveys

Gasparini, Leonardo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2003

than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household …

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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean

Gasparini, Leonardo; Molina, Ezequiel - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006

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Trade and Labor Outcomes in Latin America's Rural Areas: A Cross-Household Surveys Approach

Gasparini, Leonardo; Gutiérrez, Federico; Porto, Guido G. - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2005

cross household-survey regression models with microdata from 60 Latin American household surveys and country aggregate data …

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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers

Brambilla, Irene; Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Lederman, Daniel; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011

The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various elds and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...

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Income and Beyond: Multidimensional Poverty in six Latin American countries

Battiston, Diego; Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2009

school, education of the household head, sanitation, water and shelter. Over the study period, El Salvador, Brazil, Mexico … areas of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In all countries, access to proper sanitation and education of the household head are …

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A Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2009

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen...

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