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labor force), with labor supply, inequality, and unemployment. The main conclusion is that demographics and education … wage inequality. By adding them to the demand and institutional factors behind these outcomes, we obtain a clearer picture …
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This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
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This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data … available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and … 2020, twice the average annual growth in the inequality indicator that marked the decade of growing inequality in the 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014518312
inequality during the 1990s, and performs an analysis of the effect of economic reforms on inequality and poverty by using an … inequality declined during the 1990s. Poverty declined in 10 or 11 out of the 17 countries for which household surveys are … available to us, depending on the poverty measured used. Persistently high inequality inhibited further poverty reduction. One …
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High inequality has long been regarded as one of the main problems facing Latin American countries. To understand … better the determinants of inequality and to help guide thinking about policy options, it is useful to know whether … inequality mainly reflects low intergenerational mobility or whether it is driven by differences in individual characteristics …
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This work assesses the changes in aggregate poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America during the … region for the period from 1970-1995. We find that poverty and inequality have not declined during the 1990s in spite of …. Our results show that even though there are differences in levels across countries, inequality and poverty in most of them …
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The objective of this work is to assess the changes in poverty and inequality that have taken place in Latin America …
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This document offers estimates of the possible changes in the social structure of the countries of Latin America derived from the consequent economic contraction from the Covid-19 pandemic and explores the possible costs and benefits of different types of interventions to cushion its impact. The...
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(generated by, e.g., technological or climatic change) among other benefits. In this paper, we study education inequality in LAC … interaction of education inequality with other forms of inequality, primarily income and labor market outcomes. Our analysis is …
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