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measurement of inequality it is important not to include the year-end bonus (aguinaldo) or profit sharing (reparto de utilidades …) as labor income. Under this adjusted definition, we find an inequality trend for the age group analyzed that is robust …, an increase in inequality is found until 1994, followed by a decrease until 2008. In the period 2008-2012, inequality …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …--in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the ‘re-centered influence function’ method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …
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Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the "re-centered influence function" method to decompose …-in demand; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010538773
Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … (cash transfers) in explaining changes in inequality. We apply the re-centred influence function method to decompose changes …; institutional factors were not relevant. Government transfers contributed to the decline in inequality, especially after 2000. …
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …
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Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …
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We analyse the evolution and proximate determinants of labour income inequality in Mexico between 1989 and 2017. Labour … income inequality increased between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2006. What happened after 2006 is subject to … uncertainty. The national labour force survey shows a steady decline and the income expenditure survey suggests that inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777072
Income inequality in Mexico increased between 1989 and 1994; between 1994 and 2006, inequality declined; and, between … 2006 and 2014, inequality was again on the rise. We apply decomposition techniques to analyse the proximate determinants of … labour income inequality and fiscal incidence analysis to estimate the first-order effects of taxes and social spending on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966562
Inequality and poverty fell sharply in many Latin American countries during a decade in which voters in ten countries … econometric evidence that social democratic regimes in Brazil and Chile were more successful at reducing inequality and poverty … window with lower levels of inequality, so to some extent recent reductions in inequality are a return to "normal" levels (as …
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