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This paper analyses and documents new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico …
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the labour force in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela (LA6) from 1920 to 2011 using a new dataset …
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During the 2000s Chile achieved rapid economic growth and improved most labour market indicators: the unemployment rate … fell; the mix of employment by occupational position and sector improved; the educational level of the employed population …, the percentage of registered workers, and labour earnings increased; and all poverty and inequality indicators decreased …
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reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis … improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth …
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reductions in poverty were strongly related to improvements in earnings and employment indicators. Although the 2008 crisis … improvements in almost all labour market indicators and consequent reductions in poverty rates. Across countries, economic growth …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011384085
comprehensive survey of the literature on tourism and economic development, identifying both the contribution that tourism can make … to development and the costs that it entails. Single equation and system of equations models which have been used to …. Tourism's considerable contributions to foreign currency, income and employment generation are examined. The paper argues that …
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In this study, we examine the contributions of growth and redistribution to poverty reduction in Mexico during the … period from 1992 to 2014, using repeated cross-section household data. We first decompose the observed changes in poverty … contributor to poverty reduction in Mexico. In the second part of our analysis, we compile a unique panel dataset at the state …
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In general, there seems to be a basic consensus on how to measure poverty and inequality. For this reason there is a … general agreement with respect to their levels and evolution over time, with respect to Chile and also to the city of Santiago …. Additionally, in the case of Chile there are no reliable data to consider its evolution over time. Nevertheless, the general …
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In this study, we assess the inclusiveness of growth by tracking the yearly percentage change in the household consumption of individuals over different growth spells in Cameroon, Senegal, and Tanzania. With cross-sectional data, we track the consumption of groups of individuals that share...
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implications for our understanding of inequality, poverty, inclusivity of growth and development, world economic welfare, and the … poverty has declined greatly but by others it has hardly declined at all, even over the fifty years. The global middle class …
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