Mexican wage inequality rose following Mexico's accession to the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade … Organization in 1986. Since the mid-1990s, however, wage inequality has been falling. Since most trade models suggest that output … prices can affect factor prices, this paper explores the relationship between output prices and wage inequality. The rise of …

This paper explores the relationship between a large government cash transfer programme, changes in inequality, and …

yield higher inequality as measured by the Gini (0-9 pc.pt. increase) and the top 1% and 10% income shares (0-5, and 1-5 pc … mismeasurement rise. Taxable income is subject to the highest inequality, which further undergoes the highest upward correction for … corrections confirm the inequality-neutral impact of pensions in Mexico, and equalizing impacts of transfers, direct taxes …

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 …

inequality, and find that the regions that had the highest increase in international migration are also the regions where the … diffusion hypothesis. A fixed effects analysis of the effects of migration and remittances on in inequality at the village level …, however, fails to support this hypothesis, indicating that most changes in inequality have occurred within rather than between …

, inequality, and poverty, being careful to avoid spurious correlation arising from data construction. The GMM regression results … show that Mexican states are characterized by income and inequality convergence, that lower levels of inequality tend to … spur growth in the economy, that increasing income/consumption levels contribute to reducing inequality, and that poverty …

perpetuation of inequality. This unique empirical data reveals that the "wealth bubbles" within which elites exist lead to an … about inequality and its negative effects, elites underestimate their own position in the overall income distribution, re … how the accumulation of advantages assures persistently high inequality in the country. For instance, where elites feel …