Arbeitspapier
Simulating Income Distribution Changes in Bolivia: a Microeconometric Approach
This paper uses microeconometric simulations to characterize the distributional changes occurred in the Bolivian economy in the period 1993-2002, and to assess the potential distributional impact of various alternative economic scenarios for the next decade. Wage equations for urban and rural areas estimated by both OLS and quantile regression are the main inputs for the microsimulations. A sizeable increase in the dispersion in worker unobserved wage determinants is the main factor behind the significant increase in household income inequality in the 90s. The results of the microsimulations suggest a small poverty-reducing effect of several potential scenarios, including education upgrading, sectoral transformations, labor informality reduction, gender and race wage gap closing, and changes in the structure of the returns to education. Sustainable and vigorous productivity growth seems to be a necessary condition for Bolivia to meet the poverty Millennium Development Goal by 2015.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 12
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
Statistical Simulation Methods: General
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Analysis of Education
Labor Demand
Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
- Thema
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distribution
Bolivia
wages
decompositions
quantile
education
MDG
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Gasparini, Leonardo
Marchionni, Mariana
Gutierrez, Federico
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
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Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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La Plata
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2004
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Gasparini, Leonardo
- Marchionni, Mariana
- Gutierrez, Federico
- Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
Entstanden
- 2004
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