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Poverty, Vulnerability and the Middle Class in Latin America

Stampini, Marco; Robles, Marcos; Sáenz, Mayra; … - 2015

by higher income mobility, particularly upward mobility. These findings have important implications for the design of …

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Labor market turnover and inequality in Latin America

Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino; Narita, Renata - 2023

This paper describes the patterns of worker turnover in selected Latin American countries and their implications for wage inequality. It documents a higher positive annual wage growth rate for job to job changers compared to stayers, due to turnover capturing the immediate gains from search...

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Remittances and the Impact on Crime in Mexico

Brito, Steve; Corbacho, Ana; Osorio, René - 2014

This working paper studies the effect of remittances from the United States on crime rates in Mexico. The topic is examined using municipal-level data on the percent of household receiving remittances and homicides per 100,000 inhabitants. Remittances are found to be associated with a decrease...

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Local education spending and migration: Evidence from a large redistribution program

Chauvin, Juan Pablo - 2024

migration, as well as on local labor market outcomes. I leverage the introduction of FUNDEF, a large federal program that … the likelihood of staying in the local labor market among exposed cohorts, on average. The mobility effects are …

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Attitudes towards migrants during crisis times

Rodríguez Chatruc, Marisol; Rozo, Sandra V. - 2021

How are natives attitudes towards migrants shaped by economic crises? Natives could show more compassion towards migrants as everyone faces a common threat. Alternatively, natives prejudice could rise as competition for scarce economic opportunities increases. We conduct an online survey to...

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Responses to temperature shocks: Labor markets and migration decisions in El Salvador

Ibáñez, Ana María; Quigua, Juliana; Romero, Jimena; … - 2022

temperatures have negatively affected agricultural production and increased international migration from El Salvador. We find that …

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The Effect of Cash Transfers to Schools on Voluntary Contributions

Bando, Rosangela - 2014

School-based management programs aim to improve education outcomes by involving parents in allocation decisions about external funds transferred to the school. This paper explores the effects of two school-based management programs on parental investment in schools via voluntary contributions....

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Patterns, trends and policy implications of private spending on skills development in Mexico and the United States

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela - 2017

This paper explores families' investment in skills development through education in a high-inequality, low-education quality country such as Mexico, comparing it to a lower-inequality, higher-quality education country such as the United States. The paper uses a series of high-quality Household...

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#Stayat home: Social distancing policies and mobility in Latin America and the Caribbean

Aromi, Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julián; … - 2020

This study examines the impact on human mobility of the national social distancing policies implemented in 18 Latin … countries with regard to whether these measures were introduced and when. Mobility is measured as the percentage of people … traveling more than 1 kilometer per day. Results indicate that lockdowns reduced mobility by an average of 10 percentage points …

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Socioeconomic status and mobility during the COVID-19 pandemic: An analysis of eight large Latin American cities

Aromí, J. Daniel; Bonel, María Paula; Cristia, Julian; … - 2021

This study analyzes mobility patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic for eight large Latin American cities. Indicators of … mobility by socioeconomic status (SES) are generated by combining georeferenced mobile phone information with granular census … data. Before the pandemic, a strong positive association between SES and mobility is documented. With the arrival of the …

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