Resumen: Este trabajo tiene por objetivo determinar si existe convergencia en la actividad económica de los municipios de Colombia, medida por medio de los Ingresos Tributarios per cápita, para el periodo 1985-2010. Con este fin se realiza un análisis exploratorio de datos espaciales,...

Studying the poverty and income distribution effects of macroeconomic policies or shocks requires a methodology that accounts on the one hand for the nature of the policy or shock being studied and their aggregate impact on the economy and, on the other hand, the heterogeneity of their overall...

El presente documento aborda el tema de la migración que se origina en las diferentes regiones y municipios del Estado de México y que tiene como destino los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica, en el periodo 1995-2000. El estudio aplica el modelo gravitatorio de la migración y lo extiende...

The paper aims to study individual contributions to income inequality. The role of individual positions in the analysis of inequality is considered at various levels. The utility of inequality analysis in analysing the variation across a given income distribution is also recognised. The paper...

Semiparametric methods have been used to asses the impact of policies such as changes in the minimum wage on the distribution of wage earnings. While the methods are in the spirit of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition, they help to differentiate impacts according to where individuals are located...

Many theoretical model show that redistribution causes low growth. However, cross-country regressions often suggest that growth is positively related to redistribution. This paper analyzes that puzzle in an open economy framework.

In this paper I analyze the dynamics of wage inequality in the Dominican Republic for the period 2000-2011. The analysis focuses on the evolution of wage inequality and the causal factors behind this phenomena. Using quantile regressions and data from the National Survey of Labour Force, several...

Nous etudions des familles de distributions bivariees du revenu et de l'age, mais aussi du statut professionnel par l'intermediaire de leurs densites marginales et conditionnelles sur plusieurs annees. Un concept d'invariance est introduit afin de decrire l'evolution dans le temps de ces...

This paper develops a likelihood-based methodology to estimate loss distributions and compute Capital at Risk in risk management applications. In particular, we deal with the problem of estimating severity distributions with censored and truncated operational losses, for which numerical...

This study examines the performance of acquisitions in the Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT) industry around the acquisition announcement and in the long-run. The results suggest that the acquiring REITs experience statistically significant negative abnormal returns while the target REITs earn...