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This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in … inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH). Household income from the survey is adjusted for … changes in inequality and welfare measures. Bootstrapping techniques are used to that aim. One of the main conclusions is that …
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This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill …
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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 in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the significant increases of …
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This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...
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income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … sizeable raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021996
This document presents and discusses an extensive set of statistics aimed at characterizing the degree of economic polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC countries in the period 1989-2004. Latin America...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005021998
This paper provides evidence on growth and income poverty in Latin American and the Caribbean. Results are obtained by processing microdata from household surveys of 18 LAC countries covering the 1990s and early 2000s. Over this period the LAC economies have experienced very heterogeneous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022012
This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and … regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …
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inequality has remained very high. …
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