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Inequality stability : Chile 1990 - 2003

Larrañaga, Osvaldo; Valenzuela, Juan Pablo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 295-329

This study measures the impact of changes in the income determinants on inequality in the 1990 to 2003 period, in order … determinant factors and changes in income inequality. It is analyzed the role of returns, participation rates, occupational … choices, schooling endowments, subsidies, pensions and household size. The inertia shown by inequality reflects the interplay …

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Examining the prominent position of Chile in the world in terms of income inequality : regional comparisons

Valenzuela, Juan Pablo; Duryea, Suzanne - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 259-293

previous analysis. -- microsimulation ; income distribution , inequality ; pensions ; labor participation ; returns to …

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Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile

Núñez, Javier; Miranda, Leslie - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 195-221

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of...

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The impact of income adjustments in the CASEN survey on the measurement of inequality in Chile

Bravo, David; Valderrama Torres, José A. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 43-65

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in … Chile. Chile looks more unequal in international relative terms due to this adjustment. -- inequality ; poverty ; income …

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Wenig Chancengleichheit in Deutschland : Familienhintergrund prägt eigenen ökonomischen Erfolg

Schnitzlein, Daniel D. - In: DIW-Wochenbericht : Wirtschaft, Politik, Wissenschaft 80 (2013) 4, pp. 3-9

vary according to family background which, in turn, shapes the prevailing pattern of social inequality. This is not a … percent of individual earned income inequality can be explained by family background. In the case of educational achievement …

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living in Nigeria

Akinmulegun, Sunday Ojo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 295-309

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

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Cultura postmaterialista y variaciones en el espiritu emprendedor

Pinillos Costa, Maria José - In: Investigaciones europeas de Dirección y Economía de … 17 (2011) 1, pp. 37-55

The aim of this paper is to explore whether postmaterialism explains differences in Total entrepreneurial-activity rates across Spanish Autonomous Communities. A distinction is made between potential entrepreneurs, nascent entrepreneurship, new business formation and Established business, as...

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Missing women in the United Kingdom

Adamou, Adamos; Drakos, Christina; Iyer, Sriya - In: IZA journal of migration : IZAJOM 2 (2013), pp. 1-19

This paper investigates the gender-selection decisions of immigrants in the United Kingdom, using data from the 1971–2006 General Household Survey. We examine sex-selection in the UK among immigrant families and the gender composition of previous births, conditional on socio-economic...

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International journal of arts management

Montréal : Ecole - 1.1998/99 -

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Journal of cultural economics

Dordrecht [u.a.] : Springer; -1994: Akron, Ohio : Univ.; … - 1.1977 -

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