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Transient and chronic poverty in turbulent times: Argentina 1995-2002
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin T. - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2003) 3, pp. 1-12
Using panel data, poverty in Argentina is decomposed into transient and chronic components. Overall poverty has … increased in large part due to higher chronic poverty. While many household characteristics have similar impacts on both chronic … and transient poverty, there are differences. Households with self-employed workers and business owners have higher levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010629452
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Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2011
This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897708
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Down and Out or Up and In? Polarization-Based Measures of the Middle Class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; Calva, Luis Felipe López; … - 2011
This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429319
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Transient and chronic poverty in turbulent times: Argentina 1995-2002
Cruces, Guillermo; Wodon, Quentin T. - In: Economics Bulletin 9 (2003) 3, pp. 1-12
Using panel data, poverty in Argentina is decomposed into transient and chronic components. Overall poverty has … increased in large part due to higher chronic poverty. While many household characteristics have similar impacts on both chronic … and transient poverty, there are differences. Households with self-employed workers and business owners have higher levels …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094762
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Down and out or up and in? : polarization-based measures of the middle class for Latin America
Cruces, Guillermo; López-Calva, Luis F.; Battistón, Diego - 2011
This document presents a systematic review of empirical approaches to the identification and measurement of the middle class as the concept is used in the applied literature. It then presents an arguably less arbitrary definition of the middle class which is based on sound principles of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008808723
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Trusting Covid-19 recommendations : the role of experts, markets and governments
Albornoz, Facundo; Cruces, Guillermo; Lombardi, María - 2023
Do individuals trust experts' advice? Does the sector represented by these experts matter for trust and compliance? Do individuals prefer the public or the private sector for large-scale responses to events such as the pandemic? We answer these questions by means of a large-scale survey on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014455469
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Trusting Covid-19 recommendations: The role of experts, markets and governments
Albornoz, Facundo; Cruces, Guillermo; Lombardi, María - 2023
Do individuals trust experts' advice? Does the sector represented by these experts matter for trust and compliance? Do individuals prefer the public or the private sector for large-scale responses to events such as the pandemic? We answer these questions by means of a large-scale survey on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518114
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The growth-employment-poverty Nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : cross-country analysis
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2016
improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth … reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011540612
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : Argentina country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
Argentina experienced a decline in the early years of the 2000s, from 2000 to 2002, in GDP and in most labour market indicators, followed by improvements in nearly all of them, tracing out a U-shaped pattern. The international crisis of 2008 impacted negatively only on the unemployment rate and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011333375
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The growth-employment-poverty nexus in Latin America in the 2000s : Colombia country study
Cruces, Guillermo; Fields, Gary S.; Jaume, David; … - 2015
indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011334069