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This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning...
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320049
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010653197
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653092
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill … terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010897695
primary and secondary education, and to some services (water, sanitation, electricity, cell phones). However, there is an … increasing gap between the rich and the poor in the access to tertiary education, and important differences in the access to new …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429287
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill … terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429399
This paper explores the direct ef fect of an education expansion on the level of earnings inequality by carrying out … microsimulations for most Latin American countries. We find that the direct ef fect of the increase in years of education in the region … in the 1990s and 2000s was unequalizing; this result is expected to hold for future expansions if increases in education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011082567
In the nineties Argentina implemented a large education reform (Ley Federal de Educación – LFE) that mainly implied the … extension of compulsory education in two additional years. The timing in the implementation substantially varied across …-in-difference models suggest that the LFE had an overall positive although mild impact on education and labor outcomes. The impact on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399752
This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage … 2000s in terms of both the assessment of the equity of the education expansion and its impact on the income distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319832