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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)....

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Poverty and the Labor Market in Venezuela: 1982-1995

Márquez, Gustavo; Álvarez, Carola - Inter-American Development Bank - 1996

The purpose of this paper is to describe the performance of the Venezuelan labor market in the period between 1982 and 1995, and to analyze its impact on the evolution of poverty. This period analyzed is a convulsed one, one within Venezuela that suffered from the consequences of both changes in...

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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. …

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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?

Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank

Fiscal policy in Latin America has been guided primarily by short-term liquidity targets whose observance was taken as the main exponent of fiscal prudence, with attention focused almost exclusively on the levels of public debt and the cash deficit. Very little attention was paid to the effects...

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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...

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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...

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Fiscal Policy, Stabilization, and Growth: Prudence or Abstinence?

Werneck, Rogério L.F.; Irwin, Timothy; Sturzenegger, … - Inter-American Development Bank

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Wage Shocks and Consumption Variability in Mexico during the 1990s

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2001

This paper presents evidence on the relationship between economic shocks to relative male wages and changes in household consumption in Mexico during the 1990s, which is a period characterized by high volatility. In addition to performing this type of analysis for Mexico for the first time, the...

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Automatic Stabilization and Fiscal Policy: Some Quantitative Implications for Latin America and the Caribbean

Espino, Emilio; Rozada, Martín González - Inter-American Development Bank - 2012

This paper provides an estimation of the size of income and demand automatic stabilizers in a representative sample of … size of income and demand automatic stabilizers coefficients is much smaller than the size of these coefficients in Europe … income stabilization coefficient and two others affecting directly the demand stabilization coefficient. The main results …

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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 …

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