Artículos de Revista
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The governance, administration and control of primary education
In this report a detailed description of the current state of educational governance, administration and control will be presented.
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Post-structuralism, realism and the question of knowledge in educational sociology: a Derridian critique of social realism in education
This article engages with a current debate in the sociology of educational knowledge which seeks to dispel the alleged relativism of social constructivist influences in education.
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Promoting educational reforms in weak states: the case of radical discontinuity in Peru
The present article explores the making of education policies in weak states, particularly in the context of developing nations and in view of the increasing influence of international organisations, such as the World Bank, in definition of education reform agendas
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The Mystery of Discrimination in Latin America
In the paper the authors focus on a particular family of studies, namely, wage gaps decompositions. Numerous efforts have focused on documenting earnings differentials between females and males, indigenous and nonindigenous people, or Afro-descendants and whites. As the pieces of the literature that the authors survey in this section show, comparisons of hourly labor earnings (wages […]
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An extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition to a continuum of comparison groups
The paper proposes an extension of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition from two to a continuum of comparison groups. The proposed decomposition is then estimated for racial wage differences in urban Peru, exploiting a novel data set that allows the capturing of different degrees of mestizaje (racial mixtures).
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Matching as a Tool to Decompose Wage Gaps
The paper presents a methodology that uses matching comparisons to explain gender wage differences. The approach emphasizes gender differences in the supports of the distributions of observable characteristics and provides insights into the distribution of unexplained gender pay differences. This nonparametric alternative to the Blinder-Oaxaca (BO) decomposition does not require the estimation of earnings equations […]
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Occupational training to reduce gender segregation: The impacts of ProJoven
The paper illustrates the process of program evaluation for ProJoven, the Peruvian youth labor training program. The program provides beneficiaries with basic three-month training in lowskill occupations and with internship opportunities. ProJoven’s design promotes gender equality by encouraging female participation in training for traditionally male-dominated occupations and by providing subsidies so mothers with children can […]
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Opinión pública, agenda, democracia y derechos humanos: apuntes para el estudio de una relación imperfecta
Este artículo explora la relación entre medios de producción de información, la democracia, las corrientes de la opinión y el establecimiento de una agenda pública. Plantearemos los dilemas en la interrelación de estos campos a la luz de la precaria presencia de la agenda de derechos humanos en los medios de comunicación masiva, en especial […]
