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by higher income mobility, particularly upward mobility. These findings have important implications for the design of …
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by higher income mobility, particularly upward mobility. These findings have important implications for the design of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011885651
economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be … effect is significant in Argentina and Colombia and nil in Mexico, where there has been no such expansion. We find that a …
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studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …
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In this paper we identify a group of people in Latin America and other developing countries that are not poor but not middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar)....
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than the so-called populist regimes of Argentina, Bolivia, and Venezuela. Both groups implemented policies to redistribute … income, but the social democratic regimes' e orts were more e ective. Argentina and Venezuela started the 1990-2008 sample … trade shocks were more favorable to Argentina and Venezuela, so part of the drop in inequality can be attributed to …
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This study explores the evolution of inequality in Latin America during the COVID-19 pandemic using primary data available from household and employment surveys collected in 2020. Inequality increased on average by 2 percent between 2019 and 2020, twice the average annual growth in the...
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This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are accomplished through the fiscal system in eighteen Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. We show there is considerable heterogeneity in the income inequality and...
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