https://hdl.handle.net/10419/127576 2026-09-21T11:39:01Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289907 Title: Incidencia distributiva de las transferencias de ingresos: Nuevas estimaciones para Argentina Authors: Gasparini, Leonardo; Albina, Iván; Laguinge, Luis 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289906 Title: Beyond traditional wage premium: An analysis of wage greenium in Latin America Authors: Cerimelo, Manuela; de la Vega, Pablo; Porto, Natalia; Vazquez, Franco Abstract: This paper estimates wage differentials between green and non-green jobs (wage greenium) in nine major Latin American countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay), which account for 81% of the region's GDP. We contribute to the recent literature highlighting a positive wage gap for those working in green jobs in developed countries. A positive wage gap for green jobs may be a virtuous market feature, as it means that in the future workers might be encouraged to switch to greener occupations. To do so, we define green jobs as those occupations with high greenness scores using the occupational approach as in Vona et al. (2018), Vona (2021) and de la Vega et al. (2024). Our results suggest that the wage greenium for the period 2012-2019 in Latin America was between 18% to 22%. Moreover, this wage gap has remained relatively stable over the years. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289905 Title: The impact of COVID-19 on education in Latin America: Long-run implications for poverty and inequality Authors: Bracco, Jessica; Ciaschi, Matías; Gasparini, Leonardo; Marchionni, Mariana; Neidhöfer, Guido Abstract: The shock of the COVID-19 pandemic affected the human capital formation of children and youths. As a consequence of this disruption, the pandemic is likely to imply permanent lower levels of human capital. This paper provides new evidence on the impact of COVID-19 and school closures on education in Latin America by exploiting harmonized microdata from a large set of national household surveys carried out in 2020, during the pandemic. In addition, the paper uses microsimulations to assess the potential effect of changes in human capital due to the COVID-19 crisis on future income distributions. The findings show that the pandemic is likely to have significant long-run consequences in terms of incomes and poverty if strong compensatory measures are not taken soon. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z https://hdl.handle.net/10419/289908 Title: Children living with disabilities and mother's labor supply in developing countries: Evidence from Argentina Authors: Carella, Laura; Velázquez, Cecilia; Porto, Natalia; Rucci, Ana Clara Abstract: A child's disability increases childcare demands causing two opposing effects on the mother's labor supply: while some types of disability require additional time spent reducing labor supply, othersrequire additional expenses increasing labor supply. This paper studies the effect of a child's disability on mothers' labor supply using data from the 2019-20 IPUMS MICS of Argentina. Four measures of disability are used: children with a functional disability (based on Washington Group criteria); children with functional difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking; children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains; and children with a disability certificate or pension. The results suggest that having a child with disability certificate or pension reduces a mother's probability of participating in the labor force. No significant effect is found for mothers of a child with a functional disability. However, this arises from two opposing effects: a negative effect on mother's labor supply of children with difficulties for seeing, hearing, or walking and a positive effect on mothers of children with difficulties in the remaining functional domains. The evidence also shows heterogeneous effects depending on the mother's education. The (dis)incentive to participate is present for non-graduated mothers, while the effect is not statistically significant for graduated ones. 2024-01-01T00:00:00Z