Working Paper

This paper examines Chile Solidario, a social protection programme that provides poor households in Chile with preferential access to a conditional cash transfer programme designed to facilitate investments in children’s health and education. We...

• Conditional cash transfers
• Human capital
• Labour income

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal Policy, State Building and Economic Development

• Tax policy
• Inequality
• Redistribution

Working Paper

This paper studies the incidence and heterogeneity of labour informality in six Latin American countries—Argentina, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, and Peru. We divide workers into five work statuses: formal wage-employed, formal self-employed...

• Informality
• Occupational turnover
• Education

Working Paper

Gender gaps in labour force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We...

• Gender gap
• Youth
• Employment

Working Paper

We study the causal effect of motherhood on labour market outcomes in Latin America by adopting an event study approach around the birth of the first child based on panel data from national household surveys for Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay. Our...

• child penalty
• event study
• female labour supply

Working Paper

The COVID-19 pandemic drastically affected household incomes around the world. In developed economies, pre-pandemic tax–benefit policies and emergency transfers mitigated to a large extent the negative income shock. However, less is known about the...

• Taxes
• Benefits
• COVID-19

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Job Ladder

• Informality
• Occupational turnover
• Education

Book Chapter

Part of Book The Job Ladder

• Employment
• Women
• Latin America

Working Paper

How strong is the transmission of socio-economic status across generations in Latin America? To answer this question, we first review the empirical literature on intergenerational mobility and inequality of opportunity for the region, summarizing...

• Inequality of opportunities
• Intergenerational Mobility
• Latin America

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Women’s Work

• Gender equality
• Latin America
• Macroeconomics

Working Paper

Latin America has seen vast improvements in gender educational and health equality. Favourable supply-side conditions, however, have not translated into greater gender economic equality, a process that also depends on structural economic change and...

• Gender equality
• Latin America
• Macroeconomics

Annual Lecture

• Social protection
• Social health insurance
• Latin America

Working Paper

This paper combines cross-national statistical analysis and in-depth historical case studies of Argentina and Chile to explore the relationship between two crucial dimensions of state capacity. We show that information capacity contributes to the...

• State capacity
• Information
• Fiscal capacity

Technical Note

This note introduces the GGDC/UNU-WIDER Economic Transformation Database (ETD), which provides time series of employment and real and nominal value added by 12 sectors in 51 countries for the period 1990–2018. The ETD includes 20 Asian, 9 Latin...

• Database
• Employment
• value added

Journal Article

Gender gaps in labor force participation in developing countries persist despite income growth or structural change. We assess this persistence across economic geographies within countries, focusing on youth employment in off-farm wage jobs. We...

• Gender gap
• Youth
• Employment

Blog

by Santiago Levy November 2019

Access to effective social insurance in Latin America is typically determined by workers’ status in the labor market – whether they have formal or...

• Social assistance
• Social protection
• Social health insurance