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Evolving Wage Cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca - 2017
Examines the evolution of the cyclicality of real wages and employment in four Latin American economies: Brazil, Chile …, Colombia and Mexico, during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early 1990s, a period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959063
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Income Inequality in Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador : Different Reasons
Aristizábal-Ramírez, María - 2015
This paper analyzes the individual-level determinants of wage inequality for Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador from 2001 … regressions and decompositions of standard Gini indices. Although popular opinion and standard Gini indices suggest Colombia to … educational attainment to form part of one's own responsibility the Colombian income distribution appears more equal than Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016284
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What Drives Female Labor Force Participation? Comparable Micro-Level Evidence from Eight Developing and Emerging Economies
Klasen, Stephan - 2019
middle-income economies: Bolivia, Brazil, India, Indonesia, Jordan, South Africa, Tanzania, and Vietnam. In order to … linear (Brazil and South Africa) to being U- or J-shaped (India, Jordan, and Indonesia), or a mixture of both (Bolivia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012894075
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The Effects of the Recent Economic Crisis on Social Protection and Labour Market Arrangements Across Socio-Economic Groups
Basso, Gaetano - 2011
The Great Recession did not only affect European countries to a varying extent, its impact on national labour markets and on specific socio-economic groups in those markets also varied greatly. Institutional arrangements such as employment protection, unemployment insurance benefits and minimum...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013118534
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Integrating Social Insurance and Social Assistance Programs for the Future World of Labor
Palacios, Robert J. - 2020
Given the prevalence of informal labor, most countries have combined contributory social insurance programs (pensions, unemployment benefits, and health insurance), with non-contributory insurance programs and several types of "safety nets." All of these programs involve different types of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833862
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Tackling Social Exclusion : Evidence from Chile
Carneiro, Pedro Manuel - 2014
We study an innovative welfare program in Chile which combines a period of frequent home visits to households in extreme poverty, with guaranteed access to social services. Program impacts are identified using a regression discontinuity design, exploring the fact that program eligibility is a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052711
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The Welfare State and Anti-Poverty Policy in Rich Countries
Marx, Ive - 2014
This paper is prepared as a chapter for the Handbook of Income Distribution, Volume 2 (edited by A. B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon, Elsevier-North Holland, forthcoming). Like the other chapters in the volume (and its predecessor), the aim is to provide a comprehensive review of a particular area...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054579
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Child Health, Parental Well-Being, and the Social Safety Net
Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Daysal, N. Meltem; Gunnsteinsson, … - 2023
How do parents contend with threats to the health and survival of their children? Can the social safety net mitigate negative economic effects through transfers to affected families? We study these questions by combining the universe of cancer diagnoses among Danish children with register data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356977
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Working Less to Take Care of Parents? Labor Market Effects of Family Long-Term Care in Four Latin American Countries
Stampini, Marco; Oliveri, Maria; Ibarraran, Pablo; … - 2021
, Colombia, Costa Rica and Mexico shows that: (i) women provide the vast majority of family LTC; (ii) consistently across …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227185
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Unions, Wage Gaps, and Wage Dispersion : New Evidence from the Americas
Rios Avila, Fernando - 2012
countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099807