Gindling, TH; Trejos, Juan Diego - In: Journal of Development Studies 41 (2005) 5, pp. 898-926
After declining from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, inequality in monthly earnings in Costa Rica stabilised from 1987 to 1992 and then increased from 1992 to 1999. In this article, we use recently developed techniques to measure the extent to which these changes in earnings inequality were the...