In this study the main recent methodological and empirical approaches to quantify income-related inequality in the utilization of health care are reviewed. By using data from the Survey of Living Conditions conducted in Argentina in 2001, concentration indices for visits to health professionals...

Estimations of labor participation, based on samples of complex design, generally do not discuss the use of weights; implicitly considering that the data came from a simple random sampling. This paper studies the effects of the application of three weighing alternatives : i) not to weigh ii) to...

The paper introduces the question of micro enterprises success in Argentina in the context of the 2007-2008 international financial crisis that overlaps with the lagged effects of the previous domestic downturn of 2001-2002. The work focuses on three aspects of the micro enterprises that have...

Classification-JEL: I21, I28

El objetivo de esta investigación es estudiar la contribución de la diferenciación por años de educación y por género en la determinación de la desigualdad en la distribución personal del ingreso. La perspectiva adoptada se apoya, por un lado, en el cálculo de la distancia económica, o...