The role education plays in employment and social status’ has always garnered attention. The swelling unemployment of the educated has prevented Kerala from reaping the full social and economic benefits of its educational development. Unemployment is to be understood not merely as the denial...

This study analyses the situation of the Brazilian population vis-a-vis the Social Security System (SSS) using data from PNAD. We chose the 1982, 1992 and 2002 PNAD data to give a series of pictures of the Brazilian population at equal intervals but under different legal instances with respect...

As part of a broader discussion of fiscal federalism in Argentina, this research analyzes the role of the National Budget as an instrument of resource allocation that has an impact located in the provinces. To do this, we consider the evolution between 2004 and 2007 transfers and budget programs...

We propose a method for spatial principal components analysis that has two important advantages over the method that Wartenberg (1985) proposed. The first advantage is that, contrary to Wartenberg's method, our method has a clear and exact interpretation: it produces a summary measure...

Resumen: En la literatura económica es sabido que el sector constructor constituye uno de los eslabones claves para el desarrollo económico del país. Por un lado, participa en la generación de valor agregado y por otro, contribuye de forma importante en la creación de empleo no calificado....

Al estimar los índices sociales de precios plutocráti-co y democrático para Colombia, con base en infla-ciones individuales, se encuentra evidencia del efecto anti-pobre de los cambios de precios relativos ocurri-dos entre diciembre de 1998 y diciembre de 2007, y de su regresividad con...

Las principales estadísticas oficiales con las que contamos los mexicanos para evaluar el desempeño económico de nuestro país, y el éxito o fracaso de las políticas económicas instrumentadas, contienen errores y sesgos de medición. El meollo está en que, medir correctamente la...

We introduce a new two-dimensional measure for the heterogeneity of performance within groups of economic units. This measure accounts both, for the relative performance of the single units of groups and their relative size. We demonstrate that the new measure leads to a much more differentiated...

In the present study, we propose a standardization of indicators based on the Linear Scaling Technique (LST) that is called "interval LST". Traditional methods have certain limitations in terms of robustness, capability to analyze time series, loss of original variability for data and capability...

In this paper, we study the finite sample accuracy of confidence intervals for index functional built via parametric bootstrap, in the case of inequality indices. To estimate the parameters of the assumed parametric data generating distribution, we propose a Generalized Method of Moment...