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This document is the first of a series of reports on the socio-economic situation in Uruguay. It is mainly based on a wide range of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata collected by the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from 1989 to 2003. Data has also been drawn...
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This paper investigates the effect of changes in payroll taxes on wages and employment in Argentina. The analysis … tax rates across space and time provides a plausible source of identification of their effects on employment and wages … results indicate that changes in payroll tax rates are only partially shifted onto wages, and they point to the absence of any …
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improvements in children’s health; in El Salvador, slum dwellers also feel that they are safer. We do not find this result, however …
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-report better quality of life and a more stable mental health. We also provide evidence of spillover effects on the labor outcomes …
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Does working time affect workers' health? We study this question in the context of a French reform which reduced the …' health. We find that longer working hours increase smoking and decrease self-reported health, and that these impacts are …
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employment and distinct aspects of the wage distribution - wage levels, wage gaps, and poverty and inequality indicators - with … 1995 and 2014: A large educational expansion took place; the occupational structure of employment remained surprisingly … occupations of lower ranking as measured by average wages over the period; and wages of primary educated workers increased while …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina’s income distribution:...
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This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate...
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This paper uses microeconometric simulations to characterize the distributional changes occurred in the Bolivian economy in the period 1993-2002, and to assess the potential distributional impact of various alternative economic scenarios for the next decade. Wage equations for urban and rural...
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higher wages and labor income in rural areas, in particular for those workers located in the bottom quantiles of the …
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