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Routinization and employment: Evidence for Latin America
Gasparini, Leonardo; Lombardo, Carlo; Brambilla, Irene; … - 2021
We study changes in employment by occupations characterized by different degree of exposure to routinization in the six largest Latin American economies over the last two decades. We combine our own indicators of routine task content based on information from the Programme for the International...
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The risk of automation in Latin America
Brambilla, Irene; César, Andrés; Falcone, Guillermo; … - 2021
In this paper we characterize workers' vulnerability to automation in the near future in the six largest Latin American … economies as a function of the exposure to routinization of the tasks that they perform and the potential automation of their … other labor variables. We find that the ongoing process of automation is likely to significantly affect the structure of …
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Automatización y pandemia: Amenazas sobre el empleo en América Latina
Bonavida, Cristian; Brambilla, Irene; Gasparini, Leonardo - 2021
We study the risk of automation, the unfeasibility of teleworking and the risk of contagion due to physical proximity … the most exposed to this type of risk. Automation and health crises may have significant unequalizing effects. In addition … in occupations where remote work is less feasible and the risk of automation is higher. …
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A Turning Point? Recent Developments on Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cruces, Guillermo; Tornarolli, Leopoldo - 2009
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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Estimating Income Poverty and Inequality from the Gallup World Poll: The Case of Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Gluzmann, Pablo - 2009
This paper takes advantage of a new source of information – the Gallup World Poll 2006 – to estimate and characterize income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to those in other regions of the world. The Gallup...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429289
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Remittances and Life Cycle Deficits in Latin America
Bebczuk, Ricardo; Battistón, Diego - 2010
The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and retirement years and their influence on some household behaviors. To this end, household survey information is used from Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico and Nicaragua to perform a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429302
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Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - 2011
This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of...
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Skills, Exports, and the Wages of Seven Million Latin American Workers
Brambilla, Irene; Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Lederman, Daniel; … - 2011
The returns to schooling and the skill premium are key parameters in various elds and policy debates, including the literatures on globalization and inequality, international migration, and technological change. This paper explores the skill premium and its correlation with exports in Latin...
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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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Duración del Desempleo y Ciclo Económico en la Argentina
Cerimedo, Federico - 2004
tránsito de la desocupación al empleo, a partir de historias de desempleo individuales construidas con el panel rotatorio de la … empleo es 16,2% mayor que cuando se contrae a igual tasa. A su vez, se comprueba que este efecto no es homogéneo entre … sectores. Se halla que la tasa de salida del desempleo es 31% mayor para las personas con último empleo en el sector industrial …
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