More than half of those who emigrate from developing countries move to other developing countries, yet there have been few studies of the impact of this South-South migration. In this paper, we examine the impact of migration from one developing country, Nicaragua, on the labor market in another...

We document changes in income and earnings inequality in the five Central American countries from the early 1990s to 2009. In the 1990s Costa Rica had the most equal distribution of income in Central America, and one of the most equal distributions of income in Latin America. At the other...

Este trabajo busca respuesta a dos preguntas: ¿cómo y por qué cambió la distribución de los ingresos laborales en Centroamérica? y ¿por qué Costa Rica presenta una mayor equidad? Para responderlas se usa una técnica basada en la estimación de ecuaciones de remuneración. La dirección...