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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

This study combines survey data with annual state data on pupil-teacher ratios covering broadly the period 1940-90 to investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality between whites and the African descendent...

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Non-contributory pensions

Bando, Rosangela; Gertler, Paul; Galiani, Sebastián - Inter-American Development Bank - 2014

The creation of non-contributory pension schemes is becoming increasingly common as countries struggle to reduce poverty. Drawing on data from Mexico's Adultos Mayores Program (Older Adults Program) --a cash transfer scheme aimed at rural adults over 70 years of age-- we evaluate the effects of...

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What Drives Differences in Inequality across Countries?

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

importance of different income sources. The decomposition is applied to household survey data from 35 countries from 6 regions in …

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Savings in Chile: What Went Right?

Morandé, Felipe - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

Some analysts rank Chile as the only Latin American economy that qualifies as a 'take-off economy,' or development economy. In a sense, Chile's enduring success and proved insulation from the 'Tequila effect' are due to its high national savings. What has made Chile's savings so high? What were...

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Housing Tenure and Housing Demand in Colombia

Arbeláez, María Angélica; Steiner, Roberto; Becerra, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

and credit is explained by demand for low-income housing. …

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

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Income, Deprivation, and Perceptions in Latin America and the Caribbean: New Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Gasparini, Leonardo; Escudero, Walter Sosa; Marchionni, … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2008

of income, multidimensional non-monetary, and subjective deprivation for all countries in the region based on Gallup data …

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Latin American Middle Classes: The Distance between Perception and Reality

Lora, Eduardo; Fajardo, Johanna - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

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A New Way of Monitoring the Quality of Urban Life

Powell, Andrew; Lora, Eduardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper proposes a methodology to resolve the problems that result from using a combination of objective and subjective information in evaluating urban quality of life. The paper further suggests techniques to identify and rank issues of potential importance for urban dwellers. In order to...

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

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