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The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the ‘90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in...
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This paper is concerned with the relationship between education, wages and working behaviour. The work is partly motivated by the sharp distinction in the literature between the returns to education and the effect of wages on labour supply. Education is the investment that cumulates in the form...
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New Zealand experienced a sharp rise in labour force participation rates among older people over the period 1991?2001. This stands in contrast to the experience of most other OECD countries where such participation rates have been in steady decline. The predominant reason for this turnaround was...
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Dentro del análisis de costo-beneficio de los proyectos del Programa de Apoyo a la Convivencia y Seguridad Ciudadana de la ciudad de Cali (PACSC), se aplicó el Método de Valoración Contingente (MVC) para estimar monetariamente sus impactos tempranos. Esta técnica resultó ser la más...
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Este artículo analiza la pobreza urbana desde la perspectiva de la vulnerabilidad social en cinco comunidades de la ciudad de Cali, pertenecientes a los estratos socioeconómicos 1, 2 y 3. El trabajo combinó la realización de encuestas con preguntas estructuradas y abiertas, y la recolección...
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El presente documento hace una revisión de las tendencias recientes del régimen contributivo de salud y plantea algunas de sus perspectivas en materia de coberturas en el mediano y largo plazo. A partir de tendencias históricas y diferentes escenarios de crecimiento del empleo asalariado, se...
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Dans cet article, nous analysons l'impact des politiques de transferts publics sur la pauvreté au Canada et aux états-Unis à l'aide de la base de données du Luxembourg Income Study. Pour ce faire, nous utilisons une méthode basée sur la valeur de Shapley afin de pouvoir attribuer à chaque...
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This paper makes a distinction between relief work (as in situations of crises, wherein food-aid is appropriate and often imperative) and public works programs, which have become essential ingredients of poverty alleviation strategies.
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Le principal objectif de l'etude sur le requerantes etait de determiner si les nouvelles venues a l'aide sociale y resteraient plus longtemps pour pouvoir etre admissibles au supplement de revenu de Projet d'autosuffisance (PAS).
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As is amply documented, there appears to be a large discrepancy between the marginal propensity to purchace food ou of cash income and that out of food stamps. In this paper, we have examined both the formal and empirical bases of the claim that marginal welfare stigma explains this puzzling...
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