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In this paper we analyze intergenerational educational mobility for afro-descendants and no afro-descendants in Uruguay. We consider the relationship between educational achievements of teenagers and their parents’. The results show that relative mobility is higher among afro-descendants than...
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This article calculates the sheepskin effect on wages in Cali’s labor market, where additional profitability on wages when possessing a high school degree is 25 percent and 12 percent for March and September of 2000, and 45 percent and 37 percent for the same months, respectively, when...
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, Brazil and Andean America, and we analyse the positive impact of education on economic development and the importance of … increasing the public expenditure on education per inhabitant in order to get a improve economic development during the first …
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En este trabajo se presentan la metodología y los resultados de la evaluación de impacto del programa Jóvenes Rurales Emprendedores del Sena (JRE). Una vez aplicada la metodología Propensity Score Matching (PSM), diferencias en diferencias y la combinación de ambas, se encontró que...
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Abstract. Este documento presenta la evaluación de dos programas ejecutados por el SENA - Formación Técnica y Tecnológica (FTyT) y Formación Especializada del Recurso Humano Vinculado a las Empresas (FE). En el caso de FTyT se emplea un enfoque cuantitativo mientras que en el caso de FE se...
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The main objective of this research is to estimate and analyze the temporal changes in income mobility between generations in Argentina. For this, the concept of equality of opportunity is considered which offers a natural approach to evaluate the processes of intergenerational mobility (IM). In...
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The main objective of this research is to estimate and analyze the temporal changes in income mobility between generations in Argentina. For this, the concept of equality of opportunity is considered which offers a natural approach to evaluate the processes of intergenerational mobility (IM). In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540687
The drop in quinoa prices during 2015 caused a deep economic and environmental crisis that forced producers to seek new sources of income and marketing strategiesto achieve production sustainability. Under these circumstances, women producers also had to seek a beter balance between their tasks...
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Analizamos la evolución del desarrollo económico y del crecimiento demográfico de 38 países de África en el período 2000-2005, en comparación con la media mundial, así como las relaciones entre el nivel de desarrollo y el gasto en salud y educación. Aunque podemos constatar una ligera...
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El objetivo de este trabajo es el de cuantificar el grado de desprotección al que se ven sometidos los individuos en los países de la OCDE durante el año 2003, mediante el cálculo de un Índice de Vulnerabilidad Social. La estimación de dicho índice se ha llevado a cabo a partir de la suma...
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