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 …

economies: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico. We show that the short-term impact on income inequality and poverty can be …

rates, intergenerational mobility of education, and long-run earnings inequality in eight countries Sub-Saharan Africa. On …. disadvantaged children, earnings inequality could increase between one and four Gini points, depending on the assumptions. …

Inequality in Latin America unambiguously declined in the 2000s. The Gini coefficient fell in 14 of the 17 countries … main explanations for the decline in inequality: a reduction in hourly labor income inequality, and more robust and … labor income inequality. The causes behind the decline in returns to schooling, however, have not been unambiguously …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …

We apply a standard tax and benefit incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average … and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …

We apply a standard tax-and-benefit-incidence analysis to estimate the impact on inequality and poverty of direct taxes … extent of inequality reduction induced by direct taxes and transfers is rather small (2 percentage points on average …, and Brazil from achieving similar reductions in inequality is not the lack of revenues but the fact that they spend less …