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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052155
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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Gabriela Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
wages, and declining labor informality, a confluence of factors that reduced earnings inequality. In the aftermath of the …Latin American countries have some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. However, earnings … inequality significantly changed over the last three decades, increasing during the 1980s and 1990s, declining sharply in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013286576
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Decomposition methods for analyzing inequality changes in Latin America 2002-2014
Ariza, John; Montes-Rojas, Gabriel - In: Empirical economics : a journal of the Institute for … 57 (2019) 6, pp. 2043-2078
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - 2019
This paper documents an inverse U-shape in the evolution of wage inequality in Latin America since 1995, with a sharp … for the process of reduction in inequality, but do not fully account for the fall in within-skill variance. Evidence using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012114119
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Twenty years of wage inequality in Latin America
Messina, Julián; Silva, Joana - In: The World Bank economic review : WBER 35 (2021) 1, pp. 117-147
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434802
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New perspectives on inequality in Latin America
Fernández, Manuel; Serrano, Gabriela - 2022
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013390801
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Formal Versus Informal Sector Choice of Wage Earners and Their Wages in Turkey
Tansel, Aysit - 2001
This study considers those wage earners who are covered by a social security program as part of the formal sector and those wage earners who are not covered by any social security program as part of the informal sector. Using 1994 Household Expenditure Survey, I first examine how individuals are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014134264
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Explaining rising returns to education in urban China in the 1990s
Liu, Xuejun; Park, Albert; Zhao, Yaohui - 2010
Although theory predicts that international trade will decrease the relative demand for skilled workers in relatively skill-deficit countries, in recent decades many developing countries have experienced rising wage premiums for skilled workers. We examines this puzzle by quantifying the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269848
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The medium- and long-term effects of an expansion of education on poverty in Côte d'Ivoire: A dynamic microsimulation study
Grimm, Michael - 2004
I use a dynamic microsimulation model to analyse the distributional effects of an expansion of education in Côte d’Ivoire in the medium and long term. The simulations are performed in order to replicate several policies in force or subject to debate in this country. Various hypotheses...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010284873
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La distinction reloaded: Returns to education, family background, cultural and social capital in Germany
Krenz, Astrid - 2010
The German educational system finds itself being criticized by the OECD in its Programme for International Student Assessment. Family background would heavily influence children's academic achievements. A child stemming from a high class family has a 3.1 times higher chance to go to secondary...
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