low in the Region. The evidence also suggests high levels of immobility at the income distribution's lower and upper tails …. While intergenerational education mobility has improved in recent decades, which may increase income mobility for younger …

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the … schooling are the main reason why income distribution has not improved in the 1990s. However, the lack of progress in income …

The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This … inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data … and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth …

. Seven objective income-based definitions of social class are contrasted with a self-perceived social status measure … incomes. Mismatches arise because self-perceived social status is associated not just with income, but also with personal …

This working paper advances research on inequality with unique, new data on income distribution in 61 countries …

into education groups to determine whether there are differences in saving behavior along the distribution of income. Third …

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation … 1990 and 2007, this paper finds that i) countries with historically more unequal distributions of wealth and income … lower shares of personal income taxes in GDP. present higher levels of legislative malapportionment, and ii) higher levels …

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 sizable … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

inequality experienced by Mexico after the 1985 trade and financial liberalization. To do so, the paper uses data from Mexican … counterfactual methodology to measure the effects on inequality of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, structure of … employment, and mean labor income by economic sector and education level. …

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …