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Structural change in developing countries: Has it decreased gender inequality?
Rendall, Michelle - 2012
This paper examines the evolution of female labor market outcomes from 1987 to 2008 by assessing the role of changing labor demand requirements in four developing countries: Brazil, Mexico, India and Thailand. The results highlight the importance of structural change in reducing gender...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010316911
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Labor Markets in Latin America: A Supply-Side Story
Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998
This paper shows that the factors affecting labor supply have been key determinants of the changes in employment, unemployment, and income differentials in Latin America in the 1990s. The two main forces driving labor supply in the region have been demographics and education.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327033
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Household Responses to Adverse Income Shocks in Latin America
Gaviria, Alejandro - 2001
This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327120
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Patterns of Crime Victimization in Latin America
Gaviria, Alejandro; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - 1999
In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in larger cities. We also show that households living in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327095
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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?
Székely, Miguel; Attanasio, Orazio P. - 2000
household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population …, we construct forecasts of future aggregate household saving rates, based on demographic projections. Fourth, we provide …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327161
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What's Behind the Inequality we Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 1999
work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore … are also driven by quality and coverage differences in household surveys and by the way in which the data is treated; c …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …
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From social safety net to social policy? The role of conditional cash transfers in welfare state development in Latin America
Bastagli, Francesca - 2009
During the 1990s, conditional cash transfers (CCTs) were adopted by countries across Latin America as central elements of their poverty reduction strategies. Alongside other developments in the area of social assistance, CCTs represent an opportunity for countries to develop an integrated and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293307
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Towards Effective Social Insurance in Latin America: The Importance of Countercyclical Fiscal Policy
Braun, Miguel; di Gresia, Luciano - 2003
Latin America is a volatile, crisis-prone region, with limited and inadequate social insurance. Therefore, the long-term as well as the recent poor suffer significantly during crises. Furthermore, social spending is procyclical in the region, but less so than total spending, indicating that the...
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Should the Government Be in the Banking Business? The Role of State-Owned and Development Banks
Yeyati, Eduardo Levy; Micco, Alejandro; Panizza, Ugo - 2004
This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the role of state-owned banks and also presents some new results and a robustness analysis. The paper shows that state-owned banks located in developing countries have fiscal costs because they are characterized by lower returns than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010327147
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Discrimination in Latin America: An elephant in the room?
Chong, Alberto; Ñopo, Hugo - 2007
This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs may be built on the basis of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010278236