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Trade and real wages of the rich and poor : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
He, Zheli - 2019
’s productivity growth decreases the relative nominal wage of the poor and the relative price index for the poor in Mexico and Brazil …
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Firms and inequality in Latin America
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2024
The relationship between firms and inequality has been a focus of recent attention globally. This chapter summarizes basic facts about this relationship for Latin America. Unlike advanced economies where superstar firm growth has prompted concerns over disproportionate income growth at the top,...
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Firms and inequality in Latin America
Eslava, Marcela; Meléndez Arjona, Marcela; Ulyssea, Gabriel - 2024
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014530057
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Innovation and productivity : evidence from six Latin American countries
Crespi, Gustavo; Zuñiga, Pluvia - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305976
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On the implications of taxation for investment, savings and growth : evidence from Brazil, Chile and Mexico
Espino, Emilio; González Rozada, Martín - 2015
American countries: Brazil, Chile and Mexico, studying a small open economy in the context of an endogenous growth model where … capital at a considerably lower rate than at present. Consumption should be heavily taxed in Brazil and Mexico and optimal … labor taxes should be lower than actual taxes in Brazil and Chile. However, while sub-optimal taxes seem to imply lower long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289284
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Growing resources for growing cities density and the cost of municipal public services in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico
Libertun de Duren, Nora; Guerrero Compeán, Roberto - 2015
per square kilometer. In this study of approximately 8,600 municipalities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Mexico, 85 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011485025
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Evolving wage cyclicality in Latin America
Gambetti, Luca; Messina, Julián - 2016
(Brazil, Chile, Colombia and Mexico) during the period 1980-2010. Wages are highly pro-cyclical during the 1980s and early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011519079
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Are long hospitalizations substituting primary and long-term care? : evidence from Brazil and Mexico
Aranco, Natalia; Bauhoff, Sebastian; Schwarz, Natalie; … - 2024
hospital patients (65 years and older) in Brazil and Mexico. We develop a continuum-of-care conceptual framework based on prior … the inappropriate days can be attributed to hospital inefficiency (36% in Brazil and 49% in Mexico), an important share is … days in Brazil and 7% in Mexico. In a back-of-the-envelope calculation, we estimate that providing six weeks of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015051366
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Conditional cash transfers and schooling decisions : evidence from urban Mexico
Heracleous, Maria; Gonzáles Flores, Mario; Winters, Paul - 2016
Using administrative data from the urban Mexican Oportunidades program, this paper analyzes why poor households choose less education for their children, even when offered financial compensation for school attendance. Each school year, half of recipients forgo income for which they are eligible...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011544011
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Conditional cash transfers for women and spousal violence : evidence of the long-term relationship from the Oportunidades program in Rural Mexico
Bobonis, Gustavo J.; Castro, Roberto; Morales, Juan S. - 2015
This paper provides evidence of the long-term relationship between male-to-female spousal violence and the Oportunidades conditional cash transfer program. It uses data from three nationally representative surveys that include detailed information on the prevalence of spousal abuse and threats...
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