low in the Region. The evidence also suggests high levels of immobility at the income distribution's lower and upper tails …. While intergenerational education mobility has improved in recent decades, which may increase income mobility for younger … populations, overall the Region still presents lower intergenerational social mobility. These results may be associated with …

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 …

. Chapter 3 then examines education in the region, highlighting the reversal of the gender schooling gap. Nowadays, girls attend …

surveyed people from throughout the region and found that perceptions of quality of life are often very different from the … reality. These surprising findings have enormous significance for the political economy of the region and provide a wealth of … específicas sobre América Latina, el Banco Interamericano de Desarrollo realizó un sondeo entre residentes de toda la región y …

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 …

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third … household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First …