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Caracterización de los Cambios en la Desigualdad y la Pobreza en Argentina Haciendo Uso de Técnicas de Descomposiciones Microeconometricas (1992-2001)

Bustelo, Monserrat - 2004

La pobreza y la desigualdad de los ingresos laborales y familiares en Argentina han experimentado un sostenido incremento a lo largo de la última década. Como es sabido el ingreso laboral es el producto entre el salario y las horas trabajadas. Si bien importantes resultados han surgido al...

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Desigualdad y Pobreza entre las Regiones Argentinas: Un Análisis de Microdescomposiciones

Zacaria, Héctor; Zoloa, Juan Ignacio - 2006

Las regiones argentinas presentan diferencias en su estructura poblacional y también en la forma en que retribuyen a los distintos factores. Este trabajo estudia cómo esas diferencias afectan la distribución del ingreso y la pobreza, aplicando técnicas de microdescomposición. La...

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Welfare measurement and measurement error

Chesher, Andrew; Schluter, Christian - 2001

The approximate effects of measurement error on a variety of measures of inequality and poverty are derived. They are …

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Modeling Concentration and Dispersion in Multiple Regression

Aaberge, Rolf; Bjerve, Steinar; Doksum, Kjell - 2005

, economics and reliability theory. Lorenz introduced a device for measuring inequality in the distribution of incomes that …

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Matching as a tool to decompose wage gaps

Ñopo, Hugo - 2004

In this paper I present a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender differences in wages. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides useful insights about the distribution of the unexplained gender...

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Statistical matching using propensity scores: theory and application to the Levy Institute measure of economic well-being

Kum, Hyunsub; Masterson, Thomas - 2008

This paper summarizes the background, type, logic, and working procedure of the statistical matching used in the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) project to combine the various data sets used to produce the synthetic data set with which the LIMEW is constructed. The authors...

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New century, old disparities: Gender and ethnic gaps in Latin America

Ñopo, Hugo; Atal, Juan Pablo; Winder, Natalia - 2010

This paper surveys gender and ethnic wage gaps in 18 Latin American countries, decomposing differences using matching comparisons as a non-parametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition. It is found that men earn 9-27 percent more than women, with high cross-country...

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Understanding rising income inequality in Germany

Biewen, Martin; Juhasz, Andos - 2010

We examine the causes for rising income inequality in Europe's most populous economy. From 2000 to 2006, Germany … experienced an unprecedented rise in net equivalized income inequality and poverty. At the same time, unemployment rose to record …. Other factors that possibly contributed to the rise in income inequality were changes in the tax system, changes in the …

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The persistent gender earnings gap in Colombia, 1994-2006

Hoyos, Alejandro; Ñopo, Hugo; Peña, Ximena - 2010

This paper surveys gender earnings gaps in Colombia from 1994 to 2006, using matching comparisons to examine the extent to which individuals with similar human capital characteristics earn different wages. Three sub-periods are considered: 1994-1998; 2000-2001; and 2002- 2006, corresponding to the...

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Gender and racial wage gaps in Brazil 1996-2006: Evidence using a matching comparisons approach

Marques Garcia, Luana; Ñopo, Hugo; Salardi, Paola - 2009

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found along the gender divide, although both noticeably...

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