The 'paradox of progress' is an empirical regularity that associates more education with larger income inequality. Two …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina’s income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. …

This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the … the transition contributed to the particular severity of the income distribution changes. The macro crises and the …/02 triggered a large jump in inequality, although income disparities returned to pre-crisis levels as the economy recovered fast …

highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the significant increases of …

This chapter reviews the empirical evidence on the levels and trends in income/consumption inequality and poverty in … on average the levels of national income inequality in the developing world increased in the 1980s and 1990s, and … declined in the 2000s. There was a remarkable fall in income poverty since the early 1980s, driven by the exceptional …

After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South …

American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income … database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality …

inequality in subjective well-being may be a better proxy for the degree of unfairness in a society than income inequality. We …

During the last two decades fertility decisions have varied significantly and not uniformly along the income … distribution. In this paper we study the effects of these demographic changes on two dimensions of the income distribution -poverty … household income distribution that would emerge if individuals in time t took fertility decisions as in time t’. The results …