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Starting from the medieval period, women in the Italian Alps experienced a progressive erosion in property rights over the commons. We collected documents about the evolution of inheritance regulations on collective land issued by hundreds of peasant communities over a period of six centuries...
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distributions of income in Latin America. At the other extreme, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua were among the most unequal … inequality in El Salvador and Nicaragua decreased while inequality in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras increased. By 2009 … and Nicaragua but increased in Costa Rica, Guatemala and Honduras. -- income inequality ; Central America ; labour income …
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strike Guatemala since rainfall records have been kept - on household welfare. The analysis reveals substantial negative … seen in urban Guatemala between 2006 and 2011, which national authorities and analysts previously attributed solely to the …
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With only 32% of active age women in the labor market, Guatemala is an upper middle-income country with one of the …
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A recent surge in child migration to the U.S. from Honduras, El Salvador, and Guatemala has occurred in the context of …
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Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
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The Self-Sufficiency Project (SSP) is a research and demonstration project that offered a generous time-limited income supplement to randomly selected welfare applicants under two conditions. The first, the eligibility condition, required that they remain on welfare for at least twelve months....
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of Canadians is offered, as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants …
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This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries. Since the estimation of that impact can depend on the order in which the various income sources are introduced into the analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates...
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. -- Stochastic dominance ; empirical likelihood ; Canada ; income distribution …
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