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 reviews the pattern of poverty rates and income inequality in El Salvador since the 1990s. It discusses some … of the likely factors that explain the reduction in income inequality that has taken place in the country in the last …

This paper examines the measurement of social welfare, poverty and inequality taking into account features that have …

lower labour share in national income as well as in a growing income inequality, with the exception of some countries with …

involved, of the difficulties which can arise in the measurement of poverty and inequality when one compares populations of …

In the presence of inequality a status-driven utility function reconciles the conflict between income-based and …

city’s sociospatial inequality, degradation of the central districts and widespread irregularity, it illustrates how these …

countries, with emphasis on the role of income inequality. The focus is on the period since the early/mid-1990s when growth in …