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This study addresses inequality of opportunities in access to education for the school-age population and in labor income for the working-age population in Bolivia. Stochastic dominance criteria are used to evaluate the existence of these inequalities. Subsequently, we approximate them using...
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This study addresses inequality of opportunities in access to education for the school-age population and in labor income for the working-age population in Bolivia. Stochastic dominance criteria are used to evaluate the existence of these inequalities. Subsequently, we approximate them using...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014450160
Spanish Abstract: Este artículo propone un método para analizar la pobreza mediante curvas TIP/IID. Analiza la dominancia estocástica de primero y segundo órdenes entre las curvas, incluyendo sus aspectos inferenciales, y propone un contraste de hipótesis adecuado. Empleando datos de la...
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An incomplete manuscript on Statistics for economists.
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The present work corroborates the existence of two anomalies that question the hypothesis of efficient markets in the Chilean stock market, these are the “effect weekend” or “effect monday” and the “effect month end”. Using the daily values of closing of stock-exchange index IPSA,...
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The present work corroborates the existence of two anomalies that question the hypothesis of efficient markets in the Chilean stock market, these are the “effect weekend” or “effect monday” and the “effect month end”. Using the daily values of closing of stock-exchange index IPSA,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015250604
Co-operative companies, in contrast to limited companies, cannot be listed on the stock market, hence no mechanism such as the stock exchange rate exists to assign them a value, so that co-operative executives do not have an external mechanism judging their management. To correct this situation...
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En este trabajo se analizan los cambios en la desigualdad producidos durante el período 1998-2005. Se presenta un conjunto de resultados que pueden contribuir a entender mejor los cambios en la desigualdad. Los resultados obtenidos muestran que la desigualdad distributiva observada entre ambos...
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La pobreza en Argentina ha experimentado un sostenido incremento no uniforme entre regiones geográficas a lo largo de la última década. Tanto las variaciones en el ingreso medio como en la desigualdad del mismo tuvieron participación en su evolución. En este trabajo se estudian ambos...
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Varios indicadores señalan la mayor gravedad de la pobreza rural en Argentina. Utilizando las encuestas ISCA (2002), este trabajo investiga las causas de la brecha urbano-rural aplicando técnicas de descomposiciones. Empleando dichas técnicas se intenta cuantificar, primero, la contribución...
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