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El presente capítulo se organiza en siete secciones. Luego de la introducción, en la segunda sección se presenta una discusión conceptual de la pobreza desde el punto de vista de las capacidades propuesto por Amartya Sen. La tercera sección revisa la metodología de la pobreza...
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El presente libro recopila investigaciones realizadas por jóvenes estudiantes y recién egresados de economía con motivo del I Concurso Nacional: ¨Gasto en la mira: Evaluando el gasto público¨, organizado por la Universidad del Pacífico con el apoyo de Global Development Network (GDN). Las...
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In Chile, income is distributed on a substantially more equitable basis among younger generations than older generations. There is a greater social mobility and less poverty in the younger generations. The overall trends "are going well," but social policy has not been adapted to this new...
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Colombia necesita adoptar una agenda estratégica para poder atender el rezago en que se encuentra el sector de infraestructura de transporte. Dos reformas largamente aplazadas son determinantes para el éxito de esa agenda: Primero, aprovechar la oportunidad que representa la agenda de Cambio...
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This study estimates the state dependence in social assistance in Sweden during 1990–1999 by different types of households, which were grouped by the country of birth of the sampled individual and his/her partner. The results show that the structural state dependence differed extensively...
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Welfare persistence is estimated and compared between Swedish-born and foreign-born households during the 1990s. This is done within the framework of a dynamic discrete choice model controlling for the initial conditions problem and permanent unobserved heterogeneity. We control for three types...
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Hasta el momento la literatura internacional no ha logrado definir con claridad cuál es la relación existente entre el consumo de energía (calorías) y la productividad del individuo. En este sentido, esta investigación intenta esbozar este comportamiento a través de la ENAHO 2002. Los...
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The paper discusses the basic rationale which has inspired the intellectual re-orientation from «social protection» to «social investment», with particular attention to child policy. The first section outlines the main features of the social investment approach contrasting it with the more...
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Recessions are complex events that affect personal health and behavior via various potentially opposing mechanisms. While recessions are known to have negative effects on mental health and lead to an increase in suicides, it has been proven that they reduce mortality rates. A general health...
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Das Bundesverfassungsgericht hat 2010 die sozialrechtlichen Regelbedarfsleistungen für verfassungswidrig erklärt und Nachbesserungen gefordert. Im Juli 2014 hat nun das Bundesverfassungsgericht die eingeleiteten Maßnahmen als gerade noch verfassungsgemäß bewertet. Um aktuell die...
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