, Chile's income distribution is, for the moment, calm. Education may be the most important variable affecting the structure … of, and changes in, inequality in Chile. After rising in the 1960s, falling in the early 1970s, and rising again from the … mid-1970s to the mid-1980s, income inequality seems to have stabilized in Chile since about 1987. With the stormy period …

The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …

the wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …