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Longer school schedules, childcare and the quality of mothers' employment : evidence from school reform in Chile
Berthelon, Matias; Kruger, Diana; Lauer, Catalina; … - 2020
Ample empirical evidence has found that access to childcare for preschool children increases mothers' labor force … participation and employment. In this paper, we investigate whether increased childcare for primary school children improves the … was the effect of the reform's implicit subsidy to the cost of childcare on the opportunity cost of mothers' time. We also …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012208607
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Monitoring the Socio-Economic Conditions in Chile
Giovagnoli, Paula; Pizzolitto, Georgina; Trías, Julieta - 2005
This report describes the socio-economic situation in Chile based on a large set of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata of the Encuesta de Caracterización Socioeconómica Nacional (CASEN) from 1990 to 2000. The report also draws from other data sources and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941074
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Poverty and Inequality in Chile: Methodological Issues and a Literature Review
Pizzolitto, Georgina - 2005
This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality measures in Chile, and their robustness to methodological changes. In particular, we evaluate the impact on the measurement of poverty and inequality of adjustments for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941075
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Meeting the Poverty-Reduction MDG in the Southern Cone
Gasparini, Leonardo; Cicowiez, Martín - 2005
This paper assesses the likelihood of meeting the Millennium Development Goal of halving poverty by 2015 in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and trace the poverty consequences of various alternative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941078
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Examinando la prominente posición de Chile a nivel mundial en cuanto a desigualdad de ingresos: Comparaciones regionales
Valenzuela, Juan Pablo; Duryea, Suzanne - In: Estudios de Economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 259-293
In the Latin American context, Chile has the highest level of per capita income and the human development index, though the distribution of income is quite unequal. Unlike Uruguay, Chile has one of the more unequal income distributions of the region. In 2003, Chile had Gini Coefficient of 8.5...
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Estabilidad en la desigualdad: 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 to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289477
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289500
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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
The adjustment of the information obtained from household surveys to make the figures compatible with National Accounts is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income distribution. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289501
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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
The adjustment of the information obtained from household surveys to make the figures compatible with National Accounts is a non-standard and potentially questionable practice given that it alters the structure of income distribution. This paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009310748
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Estabilidad en la desigualdad : Chile 1990 - 2003 : 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 to answer the question of why income distribution as a whole has not changed. The methodology utilized are micro-simulations of income distribution, which is the most...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009311734