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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America's six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
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Minimum wage (MW) policies are widespread in the developing world and yet their effects are still unclear. In this paper we explore the effect of national MW policies in Latin America’s six largest economies by exploiting the heterogeneity in the bite of the national minimum wage across local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014466614
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significant rise in labor informality in more exposed local markets, especially among young and unskilled workers. These groups …
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in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
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in labor market indicators such us unemployment and labor informality. We document that robots mainly replace formal …
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significant rise in labor informality in more exposed local markets, especially among young and unskilled workers. These groups …
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signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …
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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … sizeable raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …
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This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …
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