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 … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …

inequality has remained very high. …

This paper has two main objectives. On the one hand, it is aimed at assessing the reliability of poverty and inequality … poverty and inequality of adjustments for non-response, missing values, under-report, implicit rent from own-housing, and … regional prices. The second objective of the paper is to review the poverty and inequality literature in Chile. In particular …

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 …

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