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employment in the nonprimary sector. Early motherhood, in turn, is associated with lower female schooling and a widening gender …
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This paper presents new evidence on the study of income mobility in Ecuador over the period 2004 - 11. We utilize … longitudinal data of individual income tax returns to measure income mobility both at the top and at the middle of the income … distribution, and we find three main empirical results. First, income mobility in Ecuador is low for top incomes: the probability …
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people at the lower end of income distribution will graduate into the middle class category. The increase in poverty rates …
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that the only group that experienced a recovery in employment was workers who were not at the top of the pre …-pandemic earnings distribution. Conditional on being in registered employment, mean earnings also dropped in the second quarter of 2020 …
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During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate … fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …
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Using decomposition methods, we analyse the role of the changing nature of work in explaining changes in employment …, wage inequality, and job polarization in Chile from 1992 to 2017. Changes in occupational structure confirm a displacement …
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Barrington Moore's famous line 'no bourgeoisie, no democracy' is one of the most quoted claims in political science. But has the rise of the African middle class promoted democratic consolidation? This paper uses the case of Kenya to investigate the attitudes and behaviours of the middle class....
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South Africa has seen a significant increase in the size of the black middle class in the post-apartheid period, but the attitudinal consequences of indicators of the middle class, as of 2011, are inconsistent and modest in size. While members of the middle class are no more likely to hold...
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net import share falls with income in urban areas. Implications for food system change to 2040 are discussed. …
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Political scientists have generally seen two key features of African political economies - a relatively small or absent middle class, and a middle class that is unusually embedded in the state - as key explanations of the troubled political and economic trajectories of many African societies....
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