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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
Ñopo, Hugo; Gandelman, Néstor; Gandelman, Eduardo; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010943595
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Gender Wage Gaps in Central American Countries: Evidence from a Non-Parametric Approach
Ñopo, Hugo; Enamorado, Ted; Izaguirre, Ana Carolina - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper compares gender wage gaps for Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and El Salvador from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s using the non-parametric matching methodology introduced by Ñopo (2008), which allows an analysis not only of average gaps but also their distributions. While a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008554075
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Gender and Racial Wage Gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence Using a Matching Comparisons Approach
Ñopo, Hugo; Garcia, Luana Marquez; Salardi, Paola - Inter-American Development Bank - 2009
This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004998024
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Afro-descendants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and the Challenges of Measuring Health Gaps
Garcia, Luana Marquez; Morrison, Judith; Bailey, Brittney; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In Latin America, the inclusion of a race/ethnicity variable in the administrative records of health establishments is … still very rare. Additionally, Health Departments in the countries analyzed have not yet incorporated race … the analysis of existing race/ethnic disparities in access to health services. In this presentation to the ICHAD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010674046
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Afro-descendants in Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador and Peru and the Challenges of Measuring Health Gaps
Garcia, Luana Marquez; Morrison, Judith; Bailey, Brittney; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012
In Latin America, the inclusion of a race/ethnicity variable in the administrative records of health establishments is … still very rare. Additionally, Health Departments in the countries analyzed have not yet incorporated race … the analysis of existing race/ethnic disparities in access to health services. In this presentation to the ICHAD …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010652562
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Discrimination in Latin America: An Economic Perspective
Gandelman, Néstor; Gandelman, Eduardo; Castillo, Marco; … - Inter-American Development Bank
This book presents a set of studies on contemporary discrimination in Latin America that takes advantage of these new tools by focusing on social interactions that range from cooperation, group formation, and the impact of migration in poor families to specific markets such as housing and labor....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010895493
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Social inclusion and economic development in Latin America
Buvinić, Mayra (contributor); Mazza, Jacqueline (contributor) - 2004
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013553169
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Financial risk management : a practical approach for emerging markets
Soler Ramos, José Antonio (contributor) - 2000
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001596752
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Defusing default : incentives and institutions
Pagano, Marco (contributor) - 2001
Alejandro Requejo -- Information sharing in credit markets: theory and evidence / Tullio Jappelli and Marco Pagano -- The … effective legal system for credit markets: the case of Argentina / Marcela Cristini, Ramiro A. Moya and Andrew Powell -- Credit …, intitutional change and credit contracts in Peru / Carolina Trivelli, Javier Alvarado and Francisco Galarza -- Bibliography. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013552128