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The objective of the paper is to study the intra-generational mobility of income and poverty in Argentina to understand … validates the methodology by using the panel structure of Argentina's household survey and estimates two of the most relevant …
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During the last two decades fertility decisions have varied significantly and not uniformly along the income distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty and inequality- by applying microeconometric...
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El presente trabajo realiza una aplicación para Argentina de la nueva metodología del cálculo de la polarización del …
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This paper documents the level and trends of monetary inequality in developing countries based on Povcalnet data up to the year 2015. On average, during the first half of the current decade, inequality declined in developing economies, although at a rate substantially lower than that experienced...
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La pobreza en Argentina ha experimentado un sostenido incremento no uniforme entre regiones geográficas a lo largo de …
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Las regiones argentinas presentan diferencias en su estructura poblacional y también en la forma en que retribuyen a los distintos factores. Este trabajo estudia cómo esas diferencias afectan la distribución del ingreso y la pobreza, aplicando técnicas de microdescomposición. La...
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This study addresses inequality of opportunities in access to education for the school-age population and in labor income for the working-age population in Bolivia. Stochastic dominance criteria are used to evaluate the existence of these inequalities. Subsequently, we approximate them using...
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This paper presents empirical results of a wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil … reduction in multidimensional poverty, while in urban Argentina the estimates did not change significantly. El Salvador, Brazil … areas of Argentina, Chile and Uruguay. In all countries, access to proper sanitation and education of the household head are …
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In this paper we tackle the problems of dimensionality of welfare and that of identifying the multidimensionally poor by first finding the poor using the original space of attributes, and then reducing the welfare space. The starting point is the notion that the ‘poor’ constitutes a group of...
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