This paper documents the impact of Argentina's recent economic crises on different aspects of poverty, with a special … focus on the economic collapse of 2002. We discuss the methodology of poverty measurement in Argentina and we use a simple …

Relying on a Constant Relative Risk Aversion utility function, we use panel data for Argentina to compute risk …

cases. These tools are illustrated with longitudinal data for Argentina in the 1995- 2002 period, which is well suited for …

This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … between the late 1980 and the late 1990s. In contrast to the view that sees minimum wages as an ineffective redistributive …

unilateral low wage trade and competition shock to producers in Mexico. Wefind that this shock causes selection at both firm and …

Common wisdom states that teenage childbearing reduces schooling, labour market experience and adult wages. However …

of labour. But, existing studies of the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born workers in the UK (e … an increase in immigration reduces the wages of immigrants relative to natives. We show this using a pooled time series … of British cross-sectional micro data of observations on male wages and employment from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s …