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Labor markets in Latin America : a supply-side story

Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998 - Revised version, September 1998

One of the main concerns of Latin Americans today is the lack of adequate employment opportunities. This concern is based on the widespread perception that not enough employment is being generated, and that few individuals have access to well-remunerated jobs. This work asks whether there is a...

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Labor markets in Latin America : a supply-side story

Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998

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Understanding domestic saving in Latin America and the Caribbean : the case of Mexico

Székely, Miguel; Mendoza, Pamela; Karver, Jonathan - 2015

country, the paper finds that a possible explanation is that household savings account for a majority of domestic savings, and … financial system for fueling productive investment. The construction of a synthetic panel from household survey data shows that … household savings in Mexico have a clear age-increasing trend and have been growing across generations during the past 30 years …

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What's behind the inequality we measure : an investigation using Latin American data

Székely, Miguel (contributor); … - 1999 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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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. (contributor); … - 2000 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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What's behind the inequality we measure? : An investigation using Latin American data

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 2000

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Household savings and income distribution in Mexico

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - 1998

Following the 1994 financial crisis, the rate of saving of the Mexican economy fell from 21.7 percent to 19.8 percent of GDP. The decline was associated with a reduction in the rate of external saving from 6.9 to 0.5 percent between 1994 and 1995. The overall reduction was not more dramatic...

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Household savings and income distribution in Mexico

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - 1998

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001427741

Labor Markets in Latin America: A Supply-Side Story

Duryea, Suzanne; Székely, Miguel - 1998

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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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure? An Investigation Using Latin American Data

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 1999

work relies on household surveys from 18 LAC countries to take a step back from the use of these indicators, and explore … are also driven by quality and coverage differences in household surveys and by the way in which the data is treated; c …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

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