Jaime Saavedra
Biographic Data
| ID | 3710124 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jaime Saavedra |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jaime |
| FAMILY NAME | Saavedra |
| SIGNATURE | SAAVEDRA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | World Bank |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0010-964X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
What is behind the Decline in Poverty since 2000? Evidence from Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand
This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics and income from labor and non-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important …
Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
Latin America and the Social Contract: Patterns of Social Spending and Taxation
This article analyzes the incidence of social spending and taxation by income quintile for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Absolute levels of social spending in Latin America are fairly flat across income quintiles, a pattern similar to that in the United States and differing from the more progressive pattern of spending in the United Kingdom. The structure of taxation in Latin America is also similar to…
Latin America And The Social Contract: Patterns Of Social Spending And Taxation
This paper presents an incidence analysis of both social spending and taxation for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The analysis shows that Latin American countries are headed de facto toward a minimalist welfare state similar to the one in the United States, rather than toward a stronger, European-like welfare state. Specifically, both in Latin America and in the United States, social spending remains fa…
Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market
This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have coexisted and mixed during several centuries, as is true in many parts of the postcolonial world and specifically urban Peru. Coarse indicators of racial differences do not suffice in capturing this relationship; therefore, we introduce a score‐based procedure of white and indigenous racial intensities that allows us to approximat…
Structural reform, institutions and earnings: Evidence from the formal and informal sectors in urban Peru
Reforms undertaken in Peru in the early 1990s might have resulted in a slight reduction of the informal sector. Costs associated with becoming and staying informal, and benefits of becoming formal might have increased. This, when a legalistic definition of informality is used. Earnings differentials between formal and informal self-employed workers are negligible although they persist between formal and informal salaried workers. Skilled workers …
Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market
This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have coexisted and mixed during several centuries, as is true in many parts of the postcolonial world and specifically urban Peru. Coarse indicators of racial differences do not suffice in capturing this relationship; therefore, we introduce a score‐based procedure of white and indigenous racial intensities that allows us to approximat…
Latin America and the Social Contract: Patterns of Social Spending and Taxation
This article analyzes the incidence of social spending and taxation by income quintile for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Absolute levels of social spending in Latin America are fairly flat across income quintiles, a pattern similar to that in the United States and differing from the more progressive pattern of spending in the United Kingdom. The structure of taxation in Latin America is also similar to…
Structural reform, institutions and earnings: Evidence from the formal and informal sectors in urban Peru
Reforms undertaken in Peru in the early 1990s might have resulted in a slight reduction of the informal sector. Costs associated with becoming and staying informal, and benefits of becoming formal might have increased. This, when a legalistic definition of informality is used. Earnings differentials between formal and informal self-employed workers are negligible although they persist between formal and informal salaried workers. Skilled workers …
Ethnicity and Earnings in a Mixed-Race Labor Market
This study examines the relationship between earnings and racial differences in a context in which various races have coexisted and mixed during several centuries, as is true in many parts of the postcolonial world and specifically urban Peru. Coarse indicators of racial differences do not suffice in capturing this relationship; therefore, we introduce a score‐based procedure of white and indigenous racial intensities that allows us to approximat…
Latin America And The Social Contract: Patterns Of Social Spending And Taxation
This paper presents an incidence analysis of both social spending and taxation for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The analysis shows that Latin American countries are headed de facto toward a minimalist welfare state similar to the one in the United States, rather than toward a stronger, European-like welfare state. Specifically, both in Latin America and in the United States, social spending remains fa…
Latin America and the Social Contract: Patterns of Social Spending and Taxation
This article analyzes the incidence of social spending and taxation by income quintile for seven Latin American countries, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Absolute levels of social spending in Latin America are fairly flat across income quintiles, a pattern similar to that in the United States and differing from the more progressive pattern of spending in the United Kingdom. The structure of taxation in Latin America is also similar to…
Detecting Gender and Racial Discrimination in Hiring Through Monitoring Intermediation Services: The Case of Selected Occupations in Metropolitan Lima, Peru
When Job Earnings Are Behind Poverty Reduction
Improvement in labor market conditions \n has been the main explanation behind many of the poverty \n success stories observed in the last decade, that is the \n primary conclusion of an analysis of changes in poverty by \n income source. Changes in labor earnings were the largest \n contributor to poverty reduction for a sample of 16 \n countries where poverty increased substantially. In 10 of \n these countries, labor income explained more than…
What is behind the Decline in Poverty since 2000? Evidence from Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand
This paper quantifies the contributions of different factors to poverty reduction observed in Bangladesh, Peru and Thailand over the last decade. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted here generates entire counterfactual distributions to account for the contributions of demographics and income from labor and non-labor sources in explaining poverty reduction. The authors find that the most important …
Is Labor Income Responsible for Poverty Reduction? A Decomposition Approach
Demographics, labor income, public \n transfers, or remittances: Which factor contributes the most \n to observed reductions in poverty? Using counterfactual \n simulations, this paper accounts for the contribution labor \n income has made to the observed changes in poverty over the \n past decade for a set of 16 countries that have experienced \n substantial declines in poverty. In contrast to methods that \n focus on aggregate summary statistic…
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Economics (9 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Labour economics (6 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Development economics (3 works) · Earnings (3 works) · Geography (3 works)