equal to nearly 20 per cent of income. For Israel, Mexico, and Argentina the costs had been materially lower, but still in …

This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the …

Inequality in Mexico rose between 1989 and 1994 and declined between 1994 and 2010. We examine the role of market … forces (demand and supply of labour by skill), institutional factors (minimum wages and unionization rate), and public policy … in hourly wages into characteristics and returns. The main driver is changes in returns. Returns rose (1989-94) due to …

, we find that household characteristics explain about 25% of the dispersion in wages within an age group in all three … countries. Second, the cross-sectional variance of wages is almost linearly increasing in household age in all three countries …

institutional environment the corruptible employee's or official's decision to engage in corruption is affected by relative wages … show that inequality and higher government relative wages significantly and robustly produce less corruption. This reverses …

We present a detailed description of the drastic changes in many aspects of the distribution of income in Argentina …