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using panel data from Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. The estimates suggest broad commonalities among the three countries, and …This paper discusses a set of statistics for examining and comparing labor market dynamics based on the estimation of …
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This paper investigates the relationship between the capital share in national income and personal income inequality over the long run. Using a new historical cross-country database on capital shares in 19 countries and data from the World Wealth and Income Database, we find strong long-run...
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This paper assesses labor market segmentation across formal and informal salaried jobs and self-employment in three Latin American and three transition countries. It looks separately at the markets for skilled and unskilled labor, inquiring if segmentation is an exclusive feature of the latter....
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economies: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. We ask whether those individuals who start in the best economic position are those … for the divergent mobility hypothesis in scattered years in the cases of Mexico and Venezuela, and no support at all in … the case of Argentina. Rather, earnings mobility is most frequently convergent or neutral in all three countries. As for …
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-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political …
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Argentina hit headlines around the world in 2002 on account of the largest debt default in history and a sudden …
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time series data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. We show that while assassinations and strikes (what we call quot …
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on her child's secondary education in Mexico and find that the children of Mexican mothers with greater autonomy in … uncorrelated with the ones driving location choice of families given the migration patterns in Mexico. However, the positive …
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We study a recent recruitment drive for public sector positions in Mexico. Different salaries were announced randomly …
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The 1986 US Immigration Reform and Control Act (IRCA) was directed at tackling the problem of growing unauthorized migration through legalization of unauthorized immigrants, increasing border security and sanctioning employers who hired unauthorized immigrants. Our paper investigates how the...
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