At the beginning of the 21st century, Bolivia presented improvements in the indicators of poverty and monetary … inequality following the trend of Latin America. The analysis of the evolution of the Unsatisfied Basic Needs Index (NBI) also …

employment and distinct aspects of the wage distribution - wage levels, wage gaps, and poverty and inequality indicators - with … wages of more educated workers declined, bringing forth reductions in poverty and inequality. Second, I build a model that … percent of the occupational downgrading and around 80 percent of the changes in wage levels, inequality, and poverty during …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

with income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, we document a widespread, although modest … inequality for 17 out of the 18 countries for which microdata is available. Our analysis reveals unfairness perceptions are more … correlated with relative measures of income inequality than absolute ones and that individual characteristics are correlated with …

observed and are associated with income inequality, poverty, economic growth, public educational expenditures and assortative …The causes and consequences of the intergenerational persistence of inequality are a topic of great interest among …

alternatively inequality indicators and the change in subjective well-being in the cross-country analysis. The first exercise shows … that inequality cannot explain the paradox. The second exercise shows that the results in the GWP 2006 return to be …

We show that measures of inequality of opportunity (IOP) fully consistent with Roemer (1998)'s IOP theory can be …

increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan …