Browsing by Subject "poverty"

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    • Remittances and Poverty in Migrants’ Home Areas: Evidence from the Philippines 
      Martínez Alvear, Claudia; Yang, Dean (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      In many developing countries, remittance receipts from overseas are important supplements to household income. How do these remittance flows affect poverty and inequality in migrants’ home areas? To answer this question, ...
    • Residential Segregation Effects on Poor’s Opportunities in Chile 
      Sanhueza Riveros, Claudia; Larrañaga Jiménez, Osvaldo (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2007)
      This paper aims to identify whether or not the spatial concentration of poverty –also called economic residential segregation- affects the opportunities of the poor in Chile. Residential segregation is understood as the ...
    • The Place Premium: Wage Differences for Identical Workers across the US Border 
      Clemens, Michael; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Pritchett, Lant (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
      We estimate the “place premium”—the wage gain that accrues to foreign workers who arrive to work in the United States. First, we estimate the predicted, purchasing-power adjusted wages of people inside and outside the ...