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Poverty alleviation strategies under informality: evidence for Latin America
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-14)
Strategies based on growth and inequality reduction require a long-run horizon, and this paper therefore argues that those strategies need to be complemented by poverty alleviation programs. With regards to such programs, ...
Educational upgrading and returns to skills in Latin America: evidence from a supply–demand framework
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-12-11)
This paper documents the evolution of wage differentials and the supply of workers by educational level for sixteen Latin American countries over the period 1991–2013. We find a pattern of rather constant rise in the ...
Introduction: research at the policy frontier in Latin America (Volume II)
(Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, 2019-11-13)
The papers in this special issue take stock of the knowledge accumulated in certain areas—anti-poverty programs in the context of informality, crime, gender, urban transport systems, and road safety—and propose the next ...