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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s: Cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
In the great majority of Latin American countries in the 2000s, economic growth took place and brought about improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth was not all that mattered; external factors were...
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene; Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Lederman, Daniel; … - 2011
structure of trade and development. Using data on employment and wages for over seven million workers from sixteen Latin … with the skill premium at the industry level, a result that supports recent trade models linking exports with wages and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429324
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The distributive Effects of Education: An Unconditional Quantile Regression Approach
Alejo, Javier; Gabrielli, María Florencia; Escudero, … - 2011
We use recent unconditional quantile regression methods (UQR) to study the distributive effects of education in Argentina. Standard methods usually focus on mean effects, or explore distributive effects by either making stringent modeling assumptions, and/or through counterfactual decompositions...
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Educational Upgrading and Returns to Skills in Latin America. Evidence from a Supply-Demand Framework, 1990-2010
Gasparini, Leonardo; Galiani, Sebastián; Cruces, Guillermo - 2012
It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the educational upgrading of its labor force. Between 1990 and 2010, the proportion of the labor force in the region with at least secondary education increased from 40 to 60 percent....
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Inequality in Education: Evidence for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Domench, Carolina García; … - 2012
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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A decomposition method to evaluate the "paradox of progress" with evidence for Argentina
Alejo, Javier; Gasparini, Leonardo; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel; … - 2022
driving and competing factors behind this phenomenon are the convexity of the 'Mincer equation' (that links wages and …
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Racionalidad occidental vs. racionalidad Andina
Mercado Salazar, Alejandro F.; Herrera Jiménez, Alejandro - 2015
Is the Andean economic rationality different to the rationality of the conventional economic model? This is the question that motivated this research work. To carry out this research we start reviewing the literature on the subject, which gave us certain guidelines that the behavior of the...
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Trends in Tariff Reforms and Trends in the Structure of Wages
Galiani, Sebastián; Porto, Guido - 2011
This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. We first introduce a model of trade that … industrial wages before and after one episode of trade liberalization, our strategy exploits the recent historical record of … trends in wages and wage inequality. We use unusual historical data sets of trends in tariffs, wages, and wage inequality to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429332
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Does the minimum wage affect wage inequality? A study for the six largest Latin American economies
Lombardo, Carlo; Ramírez-Leira, Lucía; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2022
Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America's six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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