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Post-Reform Trends in Wage Inequality: The Case of Urban Bolivia
Spatz, Julius; Steiner, Susan - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2002
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and FieldsÂ’ (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755126
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Resource Booms, Inequality, and Poverty: The Case of Gas in Bolivia
Lay, Jann; Thiele, Rainer; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006
means of redistributing resource rents. Our focus is on labour market impacts, in particular on shifts between formal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755234
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Towards a Dual Education System, A Labour Market Perspective on Poverty Reduction in Bolivia
Lay, Jann; Wiebelt, Manfred - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2001
This paper addresses poverty reduction strategies from a labour market perspective. Structural features and constraints …-side developments combined with limited labour market mobility result in labour market segmentation. Vicious skill circles are … labour market shows that its characteristics do not correspond to the conventionally assumed informal-formal dichotomy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005755240
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The Impact of Structural Reforms on Wages and Employment: The Case of Formal versus Informal Workers in Bolivia
Spatz, Julius - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003
This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. To this end, we set up a small-scale macroeconomic model of a dual economy to capture the transmission mechanisms through which the deregulation of product and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005818882