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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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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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Participación en organizaciones sociales en Chile : ¿una alternativa para mejorar el bienestar económico de los hogares?

Salazar, César A.; Jaime, Mónica M. - In: Estudios de economía 36 (2009) 2, pp. 191-215

This research aims to find the determinants of participation on social organizations in Chile through a social capital approach, as well as to evaluate the existence of a positive effect between participation and household welfare. In the case of economic and local organizations several...

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Current challenges and future trends for Romanian small and medium enterprises : an empirical study

Oncioicu, Ionica - In: Advances in management & applied economics 3 (2013) 3, pp. 67-83

This study is an exploration of the dynamics of the present Romanian SME’ landscape. I offer first an overview of the characteristics of Romanian entrepreneurship and of the general impact of the recent crisis on the Romanian SME. I outline further the main constraints faced by the SME in the...

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy … improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning income distribution are likely to reduce inequality. First it … poverty and income inequality. This is illustrated empirically using the 2004 Chilean Social Protection Survey data …

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...

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