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Getting ahead, falling behind and standing still : income mobility in Chile

Castro, Rodrigo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 243-258

unemployment to employment significantly increases probability of moving up and decreases probability of moving down. Technical …

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Intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile

Núñez, Javier; Miranda, Leslie - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 195-221

This paper provides evidence on the degree and patterns of intergenerational income and educational mobility in urban Chile. We find intergenerational income elasticities for Greater Santiago in Chile in the range of 0.52 to 0.54. This is lower than recent nation-wide elasticities for Chile of...

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Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys : 1957 - 2007

Sanhueza, Claudia; Mayer, Ricardo - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 169-193

changes are stronger for the top 10% than the top 1% of incomes. Additionally, using a national level panel of households for …

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Regional earning disparities and the speed of transition : evidence from Poland 1994-1997

Burke, Fiona; Walsh, Patrick Paul - In: IZA Journal of Labor & Development 1 (2012), pp. 1-19

speed of transition examining employment restructuring in labor demand. The local shortterm unemployment (excessive layoffs …

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Primum vivere ... : industrial change, job destruction and the geographical distribution of unemployment

Pastore, Francesco - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 1 (2012), pp. 1-15

This paper aims to provide a frame of mind to understand the link between structural change and regional unemployment … mechanism to generate convergence in local unemployment rates has long neglected the question of how regional imbalances arise … high unemployment regions have a higher, not a lower rate of reallocation; this suggests, in turn, that they do not suffer …

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How much might human capital policies affect earnings inequalities and poverty?

Behrman, Jere R. - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 1, pp. 9-41

Economic inequality and poverty have persisted in Latin America despite important changes in political and policy regimes. This paper explores the relationship between various human capital programs aimed to reduced poverty and how improvements of those in poverty in the left tail of the earning...

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Happiness economics

Ferrer-i-Carbonell, Ada - In: SERIEs : Journal of the Spanish Economic Association 4 (2013) 1, pp. 35-60

There is enough evidence to be confident that individuals are able and willing to provide a meaningful answer when asked to value on a finite scale their satisfaction with their own lives, a question that psychologists have long and often posed to respondents of large questionnaires. Without...

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Challenges and policy lessons for the growth-employment-poverty nexus in developing countries

Fields, Gary S. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Policy 1 (2012), pp. 1-24

today. Unemployment (defined below) befalls about 200 million of the world’s people - a sizeable number but small compared … interact, how unemployment is caused, and how employment can be improved. At the same time, drawing on practical experience …

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Foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living in Nigeria

Akinmulegun, Sunday Ojo - In: Journal of applied finance & banking 2 (2012) 3, pp. 295-309

The subject of interrelationship that exists between foreign direct investment (FDI) and standard of living has been an issue of both theoretical and empirical investigations. This study, thus examined the relationship between foreign direct investment and standard of living measured by per...

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How many jobs is 23,510, really?

Chapman, Bruce; Lounkaew, Kiatanatha - In: Australian journal of labour economics : a journal of … 16 (2013) 2, pp. 259-275

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