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estimation. The QLP indicator will be calculated using both,a subjective poverty line and a conventional relative poverty line …The Quality Life Potential (QLP)is a new well-being measure introduced in Pinilla and Goerlich (2004).The QLP combines … the QLP,we need to choose a poverty line measure.The best choice would probably be a subjective poverty line (SPL)but this …
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What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
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What did the Latin American economies achieve in the course of a hundred years and how has this affected standards of living? This comprehensive history examines the political and economic forces that have shaped Latin America's development process.Abstract: Esta historia económica revisa las...
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The Quality Life Potential, QLP is a new well-being measure. The QLP combines income above social poverty line with … feasibility and relevance of QLP estimation with available statistical data. Furthermore, the estimated QLP will be compared to …. The QLP will be derived to a simple functional relation. The operative methodology to computing QLP will be specified and …
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El presente documento muestra las dificultades teóricas de la identificación del bienestar individual y las ventajas de … indicadores de estándar de vida. Se discuten el concepto de bienestar individual, tal como se concibe en la teoría económica …
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This paper describes the pattern of reductions in mortality across Brazilian municipalities between 1970 and 2000, and analyzes its causes and consequences. It shows that, as in the international context, the relationship between income and life expectancy has shifted consistently in the recent...
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entre 1998 y 2005 (crecimiento económico con escasa reducción de la desigualdad). El trabajo intenta mostrar la relación … a slight reduction of inequality). The work tries to show the relationship between both economic variables, as well as …
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Este trabajo presenta evidencia empírica entorno a la hipótesis de Londoño usando datos recientes de la Encuesta de Calidad de Vida 2003, producida por el DANE. En concreto, se utilizan los datos por hogares en 19 localidades de Bogotá para analizar la relación entre tres formas de capital...
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This paper argues that the evaluation of a society's economic well-being should account for the employment risk associated with being a temporary worker and for the relative income loss of young generations with respect to older ones. We show that the inclusion of new measures of both these...
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This paper investigates the relationship between parenthood and well-being in a large sample of individuals from 94 countries worldwide. We find that having children is negatively related to well-being. Conditioning on economic and socio-demographic characteristics can only partially help to...
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