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Sociómetro Title: Sociómetro
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 1990
, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672898
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Opportunities for the Majority in the Caribbean
Currea, Dora - Inter-American Development Bank - 2007
This document was presented at the "Opportunities for the Majority" Seminar in Jamaica, 2007. Based on the results of household surveys conducted in seven countries, the presentation focuses on the demands of the Majority in the Caribbean. This presentation features the latest findings on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193176
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Remittances 2005: Transforming Labor Markets and Promoting Financial Democracy: Statistical Comparisons
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2005
For generations, millions of migrant workers have been sending billions of dollars back to their home countries to support their families. Remittances are widely recognized as critical to the survival of millions of individual families, and the health of many national economies throughout Latin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009193414
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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy
Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003
This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320049
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The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia
Fields, Gary S.; Soares, Sergei - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
factors accounting for rising mean income and falling poverty in the two periods. …This study uses data from Malaysia's Household Income and Expenditure Surveys to quantify the importance of different … factors in accounting for the changes in Malaysia's income distribution between 1984 and 1989 ("Period 1") and between 1989 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357907
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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001
Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002
of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672467
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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data
Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999
The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010944543
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Returns to Education, Sector Premiums, and Male Wage Inequality in Mexico
Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
This paper examines Mexico's increase in wage inequality using data from household surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso Gasto de los Hogares de México) produced by the Mexican Institute for Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática)....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322804
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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform
Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000
employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009357929
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Analysis of Research Department's Activities and the Work of the Bank: SIS - Social Information System
Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 2001
household income surveys in member countries and from MECOVI. The primary objective of this study (RE-254) is to analyze the use …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010672701