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

increases in income inequality and poverty. We link this result to a sizeable downgrading of (mostly unregistered) Venezuelan … the world. We study the impact of this demographic shock on the Colombian income distribution exploiting the geographical …

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

redistribution policies. This anti-redistribution effect is larger among those individuals with higher income. …

changes contributed to the observed reduction in income poverty and inequality we apply microeconometric decompositions to … associated to a non-negligible reduction in inequality and poverty in the region. The main channel was straightforward: lower …, especially among women, which contributed to the reduction of poverty and inequality in most countries, although the size of this …

with income inequality. In line with the fall in income inequality in the region, we document a widespread, although modest … correlated with relative measures of income inequality than absolute ones and that individual characteristics are correlated with … inequality, rather than to composition effects. Finally, we show that individuals that perceive income distribution as very …

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