This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizable … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. This paper was prepared for the Labor Markets and …

investigate the role of race, family background and education (both the quantity and quality) in explaining earnings inequality … differences in human capital, including parental education and education quality, and in its returns, account for most but not all … discrimination at the higher salary jobs at any given skill level. The authors also find that returns to education vary significantly …

, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are …

This paper discusses poverty and unemployment in Argentina, beginning with the turbulent years since 1980. Argentina … suffered a 25 percent reduction in per capita income, two bouts of hyperinflation and a sharp rise in poverty during the 1980s … debate on how to create a sustainable growth strategy that can reduce poverty and unemployment without hyperinflation. …

Using an approach that complements standard income-based measures with broader measures of well-being this paper … income instability as measures of deprivation and analyzes their relationship with perceived and objective well-being. First … perceived well-being and income instability. …

This study provides detailed accounting of the current levels of social exclusion in education and factors contributing … to them. It provides a quantitative and qualitative accounting and profiling of social exclusion in education in the … region. Drawing from the micro-data of household surveys, it produces a state of the art inventory of indicators and …

, a share which has consolidated over the past decade. The analysis reveals that gender, age, and education are associated … with the likelihood of being middle class. The example of Colombia illustrates that, while growing in size, this income … group still faces deficits in crucial dimensions of well-being, such as education, job formality, and health care, which are …