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Journal Article
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– Evidence from Latin American countries
Part of Journal Special Issue
Women’s Work
Journal Article
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– The nature of informal employment in urban Mexico
Part of Journal Special Issue
What sustains informality
Journal Article
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– Evidence from Mexican informal and formal workers
Part of Journal Special Issue
What sustains informality
Book Chapter
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– Labour markets and fiscal redistribution 1989–2014
From the book:
Inequality in the Developing World
Journal Article
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– The Case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera Programme
This paper follows a quasi-experimental research design to assess the impact of the electronic payment system of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera (POP) programme. The switch from cash payments to electronic payments delivered via savings accounts is found to have medium-term effects on...
Journal Article
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– 1990–2015
This article is currently available on early view. The paper studies the decline of the labor income share (LIS) in Mexico during the period 1990–2015. The decline is mostly explained by reductions within the economy’s major sectors (including manufacturing, tradables, and non-tradables) rather than...
Journal Article
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– A transition model for Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades-Prospera program
The effects of conditional cash transfers (CCTs) on poverty and well-being have been widely studied. However, there is limited knowledge on how a CCT should respond to the dynamics of poverty. How should program administrators treat beneficiaries that exit poverty in period t-1, but exhibit a high...
Journal Article
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– Analyzing income distribution changes for the case of Mexico
Part of Journal Special Issue
Inequality
Book Chapter
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From the book:
Growth, Employment, and Poverty in Latin America
Journal Article
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– Electoral Outcomes of Mexico's Certification Program
Part of Journal Special Issue
Land and Property Rights
Improved household accessibility to credit is a significant determinant of intra-household allocation of labor resources with important implications for productivity, income, and poverty status. However, credit accessibility could also have wider impacts on poverty if it leads to new hires outside...
Many developing and transition countries have considerable regional variation in average household income, poverty, and in health and educational status. National human development indicators can therefore mislead policy-makers when large regional disparities exist. This project will investigate the...
– A Study of Human Capabilities
Women, a majority of the world's population, receive only a small proportion of its opportunities and benefits. According to the 1993 UN Human Development Report, there is no country in the world in which women's quality of life is equal to that of men. This examination of women's quality of life...
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