income poverty and inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) at the country level, and to compare LAC estimates to …

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on income inequality in Latin America (LA). New comparative … international evidence confirms that LA is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the highest in the world. Income … inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the substantial increases of the 1980s and 1990s. The fall in …

It has been argued that a factor behind the decline in income inequality in Latin America in the 2000s was the …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for the Latin American … outcomes and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrolment, wage …

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in … inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH). Household income from the survey is adjusted for … changes in inequality and welfare measures. Bootstrapping techniques are used to that aim. One of the main conclusions is that …

This paper provides original empirical evidence on the evolution of education inequality for all Latin American … and opportunities across the population, including inequality in years of education, gaps in school enrollment, wage skill …

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. …

period inequality increased substantially. Two types of episodes have shaped this upward trend: deep macroeconomic crises and … periods of sudden and intense economic liberalization. The sizeable rise in inequality in the 1990s seems to be associated to … subsequent recoveries contributed to the volatility of inequality along this upward trend. The large macroeconomic crisis of 2001 …