This paper examines the allocative implications of progressive income taxation when individuals care about their … relative income. It shows that tax progressivity might improve efficiency, and the more so in egalitarian economies …. Introducing a progressive income tax can yield a Pareto improvement if pre-tax income is evenly distributed. Implementing …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … schooling are the main reason why income distribution has not improved in the 1990s. However, the lack of progress in income …

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

's rural areas on three labor market outcomes: labor force participation decision, sector of employment, and labor income. In … impact on men's labor income. …

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This …

This paper explores the role of social networks in determining the participation of Bolivian women in income … its relative importance with respect to other individual characteristics, such as education or number of children in the …

. With such information a database of more than 6 million observations (workers, parents, children, etc.) was constructed …. The research results show that the number of children of the younger parents has drastically decreased. …