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Education Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean

Fernández, Raquel; Pagés, Carmen; Székely, Miguel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Education is a crucial asset for a country's economic prospects and for its inhabitants. In addition to its direct impact on growth via the accumulation of human capital, it is a critical ingredient in producing an informed citizenry, enhancing their ability to obtain and exert human and...

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Globalization and Inequality in Latin America

Carneiro, Rafael Dix; Kovak, Brian K. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We survey the recent literature studying the effects of globalization on inequality in Latin America. Our focus is on … dimensions of inequality, and developing new methodologies to capture the many facets of globalization's relationship to … that focus on distinct aspects of globalization's relationship to inequality …

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Earnings Inequality and Mobility Trends in the United States : Nationally Representative Estimates from Longitudinally Linked Employer-Employee Data

Abowd, John M. - 2017

Using earnings data from the U.S. Census Bureau, this paper analyzes the role of the employer in explaining the rise in earnings inequality in the United States. We first establish a consistent frame of analysis appropriate for administrative data used to study earnings inequality. We show that...

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The Chronic Disease Index : Analyzing Health Inequalities Over the Lifecycle

Danesh, Kaveh; Kolstad, Jonathan; Parker, William; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

The rich live longer than the poor, but relatively little is known about the evolution of health inequality across the lifecycle. Using rich administrative data from the Netherlands, we develop an index of chronic disease burden based on the projected contribution to old-age mortality. Chronic...

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Poverty Alleviation Strategies Under Informality : Evidence for Latin America

Caruso, Martín - 2019

Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, informality in Latin America and the Caribbean is a primary obstacle to...

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Law and Employment : Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean

Heckman, James - 2003

This paper summarizes the main lessons learned from Law and Employment: Lessons from Latin America and the Caribbean, a forthcoming NBER book. It places Latin American economies and economic policies in a world context. The paper quantifies the cost of regulation in Latin America and OECD Europe...

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Long-Term Care in Latin America and the Caribbean? Theory and Policy Considerations

Caruso, Martín - 2017

This paper discusses theoretical and practical issues related to long-term care (LTC) services in Latin America. Demand for these services will rise as the region undergoes a swift demographic transition from its currently young population to a rapidly aging one, especially since the region's...

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Unemployment in Latin America and the Caribbean

Ball, Laurence M. - 2011

This study constructs a new data set on unemployment rates in Latin America and the Caribbean and then explores the determinants of unemployment. We compare different countries, finding that unemployment is influenced by the size of the rural population and that the effects of government...

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Gender Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean

Berniell, Inés; Fernández, Raquel; Krutikova, Sonya - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper examines gender inequality focusing on two critical spheres in which gender inequality is generated: education and work. Our objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a dynamic perspective that highlights successes and failures....

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Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2009

Most analysts of the modern Latin American economy hold to a pessimistic belief in historical persistence -- they believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy to create a more egalitarian society. This paper argues...

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