Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …

collection and social spending? Using a standard fiscal incidence analysis, we quantify the reduction in inequality and poverty … other Latin American countries. Paraguay achieves a relatively small reduction in inequality, even when in-kind education …

Taxes and transfers can have significant impacts on poverty and inequality. All standard measures are by definition … transfers can lower inequality and poverty (including the severity of poverty) but still make a subgroup of the poor worse off … when standard poverty and inequality indicators decline and overall taxes are progressive. …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the "re-centered influence function" method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …

We provide an analytical framework within which changes in income inequality over time are related to the pattern of … income inequality grew substantially), and also for income growth to have been pro-poor. Income growth was also pro-poor in … Western Germany, more so than in the USA, and inequality did not rise as much. …

Two conversion schemes are usually employed for assessing personal-income inequality from household equivalent incomes … country inequality rankings to conversion schemes and explain the finding by means of inequality decomposition. A bootstrap …

disposable income inequality and poverty rose markedly between 2006 and 2009 primarily due to the launching of a noncontributory …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …