insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

Labour market incomes have been a major contributor to the important fall in inequality in Latin America during the … 2000s. Indeed, it was the main contributor in countries where inequality fell more dramatically. A proper understanding of … the workings of the labour market is necessary to comprehend why inequality fell, what lies ahead of us and what we can do …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage …

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-centred influence function. method to decompose …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …

This paper establishes the principles which should govern the welfare and inequality analysis of heterogeneous income …. However, inequality and welfare comparisons will usually be well defined only if equivalent incomes are obtained using … constant scale factors; and researchers will need to distinguish clearly between inequality of nominal incomes and inequality …

We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing … counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …