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The objective of this paper is to examine the changes and dynamics of household structure, human capital and the … year or year spell. The main sources of information for this work are the quarterly Household Surveys beginning in 1976 …
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This study has two central objectives. We first describe in detail the structure and behavior of Brazilian families during their life cycle. [1] Secondly, we investigate the main socioeconomic determining factors of alterations in families structure and behavior over the past few decades. We...
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participation and household consumption and savings decisions for Mexican households. We use as theoretical framework the Life Cycle …
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This paper empirically explores the effects of payroll taxes, value-added taxes and corporate income taxes on a variety of labor market outcomes such as employment, unemployment, informality, and wages. Using national-level data on labor variables for 15 Latin American countries, the results...
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This paper shows that the factors affecting labor supply have been key determinants of the changes in employment, unemployment, and income differentials in Latin America in the 1990s. The two main forces driving labor supply in the region have been demographics and education
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Earnings inequality declined rapidly in Argentina, Brazil and Chile during the 2000s. A reduction in the experience premium is a fundamental driver of declines in upper-tail (90/50) inequality, while a decline in the education premium is the primary determinant of the evolution of lower-tail...
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This study undertakes an econometric analysis of data on the use of child care services and labor force participation drawn from a survey of 1,720 households in 15 `favelas,` or slums, in Rio de Janeiro. The analysis examines the impact that access to child care services has on female labor...
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This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries …
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household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …. Second, rather than focusing only on total household saving, as is common in the literature, we disaggregate the population …, we construct forecasts of future aggregate household saving rates, based on demographic projections. Fourth, we provide …
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In this paper we draw a profile of the victims of crime in Latin America. We show that- at least for the case of property crime - the typical victims of crime in Latin America come from rich and middle class households and tend to live in larger cities. We also show that households living in...
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