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The Role of Social Ties in Factor Allocation
Beck, Ulrik - 2018
This paper investigates whether social structure helps or hinders factor allocation using unusually rich data from The Gambia. Evidence indicates that land available for cultivation is allocated unequally across households; and that factor transfers are more common between neighbors, co-ethnics,...
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Tracking Wage Inequality Trends with Prices and Different Trade Models : Evidence from Mexico
Halliday, Timothy - 2017
Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output prices can affect factor prices, this paper...
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Inequality Stagnation in Latin America in the Aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis
Cord, Louise - 2017
Over the past decade (2003-12), Latin America has experienced strong income growth and a notable reduction in income inequality, with the region's Gini coefficient falling from 55.6 to 51.8. Previous studies have warned about the sustainability of such a decline, and this paper presents evidence...
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Labor Market Transitions and Social Security in Colombia
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper quantifies the magnitude of transitions across occupational categories in Colombia, a country with high unemployment and informality but quickly increasing its social security coverage for health. The analysis makes use of a panel of households between 2008 and 2009, representative of...
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Social Security Distortions Onto the Labor Market : Estimates for Colombia
Cuesta, Jose - 2017
This paper identifies and quantifies three distortions caused by the existing social security and social assistance systems in Colombia. These distortions refer to the discrepancy between the cost of formal social security for the employer and the worker's valuation of the received service...
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Poverty, Inequality, and Social Disparities During China's Economic Reform
Dollar, David - 2016
China has been the most rapidly growing economy in the world over the past 25 years. This growth has fueled a … inevitable as China introduced a market system, but inequality may have been exacerbated rather than mitigated by a number of …. The inability to sell or mortgage rural land has further reduced opportunities. China has a uniquely decentralized fiscal …
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Can Information Influence the Social Insurance Participation Decision of China's Rural Migrants?
Giles, John - 2018
insurance and pension programs among China's rural-urban migrants. Among workers without a contract, the information …
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Pension Coverage for Parents and Educational Investment in Children : Evidence from Urban China
Mu, Ren - 2017
state sector to the non-state sector in urban China is used as a quasi-experiment to analyze the intergenerational impact of …
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The Rise of China and Labor Market Adjustments in Latin America
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper assesses the impact of the rise of China on the trade of Latin American and Caribbean economies. The study …, Honduras, Mexico, and Paraguay. The paper uses the index and a model of labor mobility, to calculate the impact of China …'s growth on labor markets in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico. The resulting evidence suggests that the rise of China has had …
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Employer Voices, Employer Demands, and Implications for Public Skills Development Policy Connecting the Labor and Education Sectors
Cunningham, Wendy - 2017
Educators believe that they are adequately preparing youth for the labor market while at the same time employers lament the students' lack of skills. A possible source of the mismatch in perceptions is that employers and educators have different understandings of the types of skills valued in...
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