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

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

, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and … performed. In contrast to its neighbors, Chile has already achieved the poverty MDG. …

, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. We simulate the poverty impact of changes in growth rates and redistributive policies, and … performed. In contrast to its neighbors, Chile has already achieved the poverty MDG. …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

beginning of the 20th century. Until the 1970s, the country experienced a fall in inequality in spite of lower income growth …. Since then, inequality has generally increased possibly as a result of large-scale shocks such as macroeconomic crises and …

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 …

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 …