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This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American countries over the decades of 1990 and 2000. The analysis covers a wide range of issues on differences in educational outcomes and opportunities across the population, including...
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-known effects on gender gaps in employment and earnings. We use an event study approach with retrospective data for 29 countries … into self-employment. Overall, our results suggest relevant changes in the allocation of talent caused by gender …
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This paper quantifies labor law violations and how the enforcement efforts impact on the compliance level by considering the possibility of different labor regulations being violated simultaneously. The findings for the Peruvian labor markets over the period 2004-2013 indicate that: (i) multiple...
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This paper assesses gender differences in the effects of adverse conditions at labor-market entry in a developing … family income and are more likely to be the head of household 10 years after labor market entry, and that adverse initial … labor market conditions are correlated to more egalitarian perceptions about gender roles later in life. …
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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...
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The economic literature that studies the salary gaps between men and women produced by children. However, there may … also be wage gaps between women with children and women without children, which is known as a motherhood wage penalty and … penalty and when correcting for selection bias it persists. When evaluating by number of children, it is observed that …
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Conditional Cash Transfers (CCTs) provide income to the poor in an effort to improve current welfare and promote investment in human and social capital to prevent future deprivation. So far, the impact evaluation literature has focused on estimating current effects on outcomes such as school...
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Income transfers from social programs are often not gender neutral and should, according to the vast literature on …
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