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This paper studies class discrimination and meritocracy in the Chilean labor market. Employing a dataset rich in productivity and class measures, we find that upper-class professionals earn approximately 50 per cent mo...

The objectives of this paper are two-fold. Firstly, to analyse the state of the education system in Argentina, combining data from different sources, as each of them have their own strengths and weaknesses. For instance,...

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This chapter summarizes information on inequality in living standards in Latin American and Caribbean countries. To that aim we work with a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001...

This paper presents empirical results ofa wide range of multidimensional poverty measures for: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, El Salvador, Mexico and Uruguay, for the period 1992-2006. Sixdimensions are analysed:income, child...

Este trabajo utiliza por primera vez información de encuestas de hogares para América Latina para investigar el grado y los efectos del acceso al crédito en el ingreso y la educación en los hogares pobres. Con este p...

The paper investigates the effect of remittances on the coverage of financial deficits arising during youth and retirement years and their influence on some household behaviors. To this end, household survey information ...

"Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery by alkali, surfactant and/or polymer flooding could be o good option to produce remaining oil from brown fields. One parameter that affects performance and economics of a CEOR process is h...

Las Transferencias Condicionadas de Ingreso (TCI) proporcionan ingresos a los pobres en un esfuerzo por mejorar el bienestar actual y promover la inversión en capital humano y social para evitar privaciones futuras. Has...

Here is a book that challenges the very basis of the way psychologists have studied child development. According to Urie Bronfenbrenner, one of the world's foremost developmental psychologists, laboratory studies of the ...