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Working Paper 2014-343 Abstract Guatemala is one of the most unequal countries in Latin America and has the highest incidence

Working Paper 2014-342 Abstract This paper is concerned with the measurement of the extent of deprivation when the available information

Working Paper 2014-341 Abstract We develop a measure of unemployment that takes into account both the level and intensity of

Working Paper 2014-340 Abstract Skaperdas (1996) characterized the contest success function (CSF), which stipulates the winning probabilities of the contestants,

Working Paper 2014-339 Abstract To analyse the impacts of North-South globalization (NSG) and North-North globalization (NNG) upon social segmentation in

Working Paper 2014-338 Abstract The academic literature on equality of opportunity has burgeoned. More recently, the concepts and measures have

Working Paper 2014-337 Abstract Colombia’s decentralization was conceived to improve population’s access to social services, reduce poverty and equalize well-being

Working Paper 2014-336 Abstract Are macroeconomic factors such as income inequality the real root causes of financial crises? We explore

Working Paper 2014-335 Abstract Income differences arise from many sources. While some kinds of inequality, caused by effort differences, might

Working Paper 2014-334 Abstract This paper analyses the effects of the recent Economic Crisis on individual preferences for redistribution in

Working Paper 2014-333 Abstract In this paper we explore the reasons for the trend reversal in the development of household