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Income inequality in Central America, Dominican Republic and Mexico: assessing the importance of individual and household characteristics
(ECLAC, 2005-12)
This study investigates the relationship between individual and household characteristics and income inequality in Central America, the Dominican Republic and Mexico from 1990 to 2002. A Theil decomposition exercise of ...
Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys: 1957-2007
(Universidad de Chile. Departamento de Economía, 2011)
Top Incomes in Chile using 50 years of household surveys: 1957-2007
(Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2011-06)
Using household surveys that cover more th3n 50 ye3rs of the political 3nd economic history of Chile, we investigate changes in the shape of the distribution of income in Chile, and in the composition of top 10% and top ...
Testing household-specific explanations for the inverse productivity relationship
(2007)
The inverse relationship between land productivity and farm size is an old and puzzling empirical regularity. Most explanations for this relationship rely on market imperfections that jointly determine the farm size and ...
Household responses to adverse income shocks in Latin America
(2002-03)
This paper uses a new data set to study household responses to adverse income shocks in seven Latin American countries. The results show (i) that households respond to income shocks mainly by increasing their labor force ...