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. Training benefits firms and employees since it significantly increases workers' productivity and their earnings. "--World Bank …
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"Mexico experienced a pronounced increase in the degree of inequality and earnings inequality over the 1980s and mid … distribution of earnings inequality since 1996. This paper shows the following results. First, education has the highest gross … contribution in explaining changes in earnings distribution. Second, both changes in the distribution of education and in the …
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"Consumption baskets vary across households and inflation rates vary across goods. As a result, standard consumer price index (CPI) inflation may provide a misleading measure of the inflation actually faced by poor households, more so the more unequal the distribution of aggregate consumption...
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-classical measurement errors. These methods are applied to data on earnings from a Mexican quarterly rotating panel. Absolute mobility in … earnings is found to be very low in Mexico, suggesting that the high level of inequality found in the cross-section will … from earnings shocks. These findings suggest a role for policies which address underlying inequalities in earnings …
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"The authors examine the distributional implications of selective compliance in sample surveys, whereby households with different incomes are not equally likely to participate. They discuss poverty and inequality measurement implications for monotonically decreasing and inverted-U...
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The chapters, or "policy notes," of this report, creating the foundations for equitable growth in Mexico 2006-2012, are dedicated to trying to solve parts of the puzzle as to why Mexico's level of economic development has failed to approach the level of its NAFTA trading partners, or the level...
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The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality … market; examining the evolution of earnings inequality, following the macroeconomic, and educational policies of the 80s, and … increases in earnings inequality; and, identifying those areas of educational public policy, which impact student graduation …
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The study reviews the forces driving Mexico's inequality, in particular, the recent expansion in earnings inequality … market; examining the evolution of earnings inequality, following the macroeconomic, and educational policies of the 80s, and … increases in earnings inequality; and, identifying those areas of educational public policy, which impact student graduation …
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