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Miguel Székely
Researcher at Inter-American Development Bank
Publications - 156
Citations - 4102
Miguel Székely is an academic researcher from Inter-American Development Bank. The author has contributed to research in topics: Latin Americans & Poverty. The author has an hindex of 34, co-authored 150 publications receiving 3980 citations. Previous affiliations of Miguel Székely include St Antony's College & University College London.
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Income distribution, factor endowments, and trade openness
TL;DR: In this paper, the empirical links among factor endowments, trade and personal income distribution were studied using panel data, and it was shown that land and capital intensive countries have a less equal income distribution while skill intensive countries had a more equal distribution.
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Measuring the Distribution of Human Development: Methodology and an Application to Mexico
TL;DR: The Human Development Index (HDI) as mentioned in this paper improves upon per capita GDP as an indicator of development by incorporating information on health and education, but it fails to account for the inequality with which the benefits of development are distributed among the population.
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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data
Miguel Székely,Marianne Hilgert +1 more
TL;DR: The authors found that the way countries rank according to inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data and on the particular ways in which the data is treated.
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Intergenerational Mobility in Latin America
TL;DR: This paper examined the intergenerational transmission of schooling and occupational status in Latin America and United States and found significant differences in mobility within Latin America, and that mobility in Latin American is strongly associated with schooling levels.
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Facing Up to Inequality in Latin America
Michael Gavin,Ricardo Hausmann,Eduardo Lora,Carmen Pagés-Serra,William D. Savedoff,Miguel Székely,Glenn D. Westley +6 more
TL;DR: The most unequal region in the world in terms of income distribution is Latin America in the 1990s and the region has a unique window of opportunity to reduce the income gap by accelerating the development process, putting people to work, improving education, and saving for the future as mentioned in this paper.