This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative … international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income … inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the substantial increases of the 1980s and 1990s. The fall in …

Within a model where the parents make the decisions relating to their children’s education, we show that skill dynamics … normally results in a sub-optimal situation involving income per capita. This derives from an under-education trap that is … redistribution policy makes it possible to increase output per capita and to reduce inequality because both increase the educated …

. Regarding the role that education has played, this study highlights that only from 1990 onward, Black women with either some … college or university degrees have lower segregation (as compared with their peers) than those with lower education …

By using data from the American Community Survey, this paper studies occupational segregation by ethnicity/race and …

Using the 2005–2007 American Community Survey, we analyze the occupational segregation of workers by race and ethnicity …

only for academics but also for institutions concerned with inequalities related to gender, race, ethnicity, and migration …

it comparatively worrisome; second, while occupational segregation is declining by both gender and race, the decline has …