Rafael Porzecanski
Biographic Data
| ID | 3846042 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rafael Porzecanski |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rafael |
| FAMILY NAME | Porzecanski |
| SIGNATURE | PORZECANSKI R |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Growth of Ethnic Minorities in Uruguay
Racial and ethnic identities constitute one of the most important sources of inequality and social solidarity in the Americas. Although race and ethnicity have a notable social impact, it is not easy to produce reliable ethno-racial statistics. This is especially true for the Latin American region, where ethnic and racial identities are more fluid, contextual and unstable than in the U.S. Several studies show that racial statistics vary substanti…
Happiness Inequality
Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market
Latin America is a region of sharp ethnic inequalities. Uruguay has usually been considered an exception to this pattern, although no data were available to confirm this assumption until recently. This article uses the Household Survey of 2006 to analyze the wage gap between Afro-descendants and whites through OLS equations, decompositions, and quantile regressions. The analysis finds that discrimination explains approximately 50 percent of the r…
Happiness Inequality
Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market
Latin America is a region of sharp ethnic inequalities. Uruguay has usually been considered an exception to this pattern, although no data were available to confirm this assumption until recently. This article uses the Household Survey of 2006 to analyze the wage gap between Afro-descendants and whites through OLS equations, decompositions, and quantile regressions. The analysis finds that discrimination explains approximately 50 percent of the r…
Racial Inequality in the Uruguayan Labor Market
Latin America is a region of sharp ethnic inequalities. Uruguay has usually been considered an exception to this pattern, although no data were available to confirm this assumption until recently. This article uses the Household Survey of 2006 to analyze the wage gap between Afro-descendants and whites through OLS equations, decompositions, and quantile regressions. The analysis finds that discrimination explains approximately 50 percent of the r…
Happiness Inequality
The Growth of Ethnic Minorities in Uruguay
Racial and ethnic identities constitute one of the most important sources of inequality and social solidarity in the Americas. Although race and ethnicity have a notable social impact, it is not easy to produce reliable ethno-racial statistics. This is especially true for the Latin American region, where ethnic and racial identities are more fluid, contextual and unstable than in the U.S. Several studies show that racial statistics vary substanti…
Inequality (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Economics (2 works) · Ethnic group (2 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (2 works) · Latin Americans (2 works) · Mathematics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · American Community Survey (1 work) · Census (1 work)