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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Latin America: A Review of Existing Evidence Title: Movilidad social intergeneracional en América Latina: Una revision de la evidencia actual

Azevedo, Viviane; Bouillon, César P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

. While intergenerational education mobility has improved in recent decades, which may increase income mobility for younger … social exclusion, low access to higher education, and labor market discrimination.Abstract: Este artículo hace una revisión …

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The Intergenerational Transmission of Poverty: Some Causes and Policy Implications

Castañeda, Tarsicio; Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

The purpose of this report is to investigate the effects of family background factors in determining the intergenerational transmission of poverty in Latin America, drawing on a review of recent studies and empirical work done for this study. Based on the findings of this investigation, the...

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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina's income distribution: deep...

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Returns to Education, Sector Premiums, and Male Wage Inequality in Mexico

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

This paper examines Mexico's increase in wage inequality using data from household surveys (Encuesta Nacional de Ingreso Gasto de los Hogares de México) produced by the Mexican Institute for Statistics, Geography and Informatics (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, Geografía e Informática)....

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New century, Old Disparities: Gender and Ethnic Earnings Gaps in Latin America and The Caribbean

Ñopo, Hugo R. - Inter-American Development Bank

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

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Beyond Facts: Understanding Quality of Life Title: Calidad de vida: Más allá de los hechos

Pagés-Serra, Carmen; Scartascini, Carlos; Funaro, Rita; … - Inter-American Development Bank

Traditionally, the concept of quality of life has been viewed through objective indicators. Beyond Facts looks at quality of life through a new lens, namely, the perceptions of millions of Latin Americans. Using an enhanced version of the recently created Gallup World Poll that incorporates...

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The Effect of Conditional Transfers on School Performance and Child Labor: Evidence from an Ex-Post Impact Evaluation in Costa Rica

Duryea, Suzanne; Morrison, Andrew - Inter-American Development Bank - 2004

This study examines the impact of Superémonos, a conditional transfer program in Costa Rica, which provides poor families with a subsidy for the purchase of food conditional upon children regularly attending school. Using three different empirical techniques -simple comparison of mean outcomes,...

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Education, Family Background and Racial Earnings Inequality in Brazil Title: Educación, antecedentes familiares y desigualdad interracial del salario en Brasil Title: Educação, ant...

Arias, Omar; Yamada, Gustavo; Tejerina, Luis - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

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 …

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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.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

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Sociómetro Title: Sociómetro

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 1990

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

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