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La pobreza en Argentina ha experimentado un sostenido incremento no uniforme entre regiones geográficas a lo largo de la última década. Tanto las variaciones en el ingreso medio como en la desigualdad del mismo tuvieron participación en su evolución. En este trabajo se estudian ambos...
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This document is the first of a series of reports on the socio-economic situation in Uruguay. It is mainly based on a wide range of distributional, labor and social statistics computed from microdata collected by the Encuesta Continua de Hogares (ECH) from 1989 to 2003. Data has also been drawn...
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This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the period inequality increased substantially. Two types of episodes have shaped this upward trend: deep macroeconomic crises and periods of sudden and intense economic...
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Bajo la concepción que la pobreza es un fenómeno multidimensional, en el presente trabajo se incorpora la dimensión ex–ante de la misma como la probabilidad de generar ingresos futuros menores a la línea de pobreza, bajo el concepto de vulnerabilidad. Se analiza la evolución de la...
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This paper explores the potential link between trade and labor outcomes in rural areas in Latin America by estimating cross household-survey regression models with microdata from 60 Latin American household surveys and country aggregate data. We find a significant positive association between...
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Este trabajo realiza un estudio sobre la relación de Kuznets para América Latina con el objetivo de caracterizar el cambio de la tendencia en la evolución reciente de sus indicadores de desigualdad de ingresos. Utilizando encuestas de hogares se construye un panel de regiones latinoamericanas...
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This paper provides new evidence on the impacts of trade reforms on wages. We first introduce a model of trade that combines a non-competitive wage setting mechanism due to unions with a factor abundance hypothesis. The predictions of the model are then econometrically investigated using...
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