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    • Comparable Estimates of Returns to Schooling Around the World 
      Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Patrinos, Harry (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2014)
      – Rates of return to investments in schooling have been estimated since the late 1950s. In the 60-plus year history of such estimates, there have been several attempts to synthesize the empirical results to ascertain ...
    • Economic Freedom, Human Rights, and the Returns to Human Capital: An Evaluation of the Schultz Hypothesis 
      King, Elizabeth M.; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio; Orazem, Peter (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
      T.W. Schultz (1975) proposed that returns to human capital were highest in economic environments where technology, price or production shocks were common and managerial skills to adapt resource allocations to those shocks ...
    • From Income Poverty to Multidimensional Poverty: An International Comparison 
      Burchi, Francesco; Rippin, Nicole; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio (Universidad de Chile. Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2018)
      The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development clearly recognizes that poverty is more than just the lack of a sufficient amount of income. However, some scholars argue that an income-based measure of poverty ...
    • New Estimates for the Shadow Economies all over the World 
      Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio (Taylor and Francis, 2010)
      This paper presents estimations of the shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian, and high income OECD countries over 1999 to 2006/2007. According to our estimations, the ...
    • Shadow Economies All over the World: New Estimates for 162 Countries from 1999 to 2007 
      Schneider, Friedrich; Buehn, Andreas; Montenegro Muñoz, Claudio (Universidad de Chile, Facultad de Economía y Negocios, 2010)
      This paper presents estimations of the shadow economies for 162 countries, including developing, Eastern European, Central Asian, and high-income countries over the period 1999 to 2006/2007. According to the estimations, ...
    • 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 ...