believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …

believe that Latin America has always had very high levels of inequality, suggesting it will be hard for modern social policy … this must always have been true. Indeed, some have argued that high inequality appeared very early in the post … performance we observe there even today. This paper argues to the contrary. Compared with the rest of the world, inequality was …

and its connection with inequality. To this purpose Brazil's income distribution is explored from two dimensions …: inequality and polarisation. A new middle class index (MCI), based on polarisation methods, is used to assess the evolution of … prevented the achievement of high inequality values and the emergence of a middle class. Then in the early twentieth century …

paper analyzes the sensitivity of inequality and poverty indicators to the adjustments made by ECLAC so as to enable a … leads to important changes in the top-end of the distribution and to an overestimation in the main inequality indicators in …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents' and children's economic well … experiencing higher income inequality in childhood is associated with lower intergenerational mobility measured in adulthood …

Countries with high income inequality also show a strong association between parents´ and children´s economic well … higher inequality in childhood has a negative effect on intergenerational mobility as adults. Furthermore, the influence of …

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …

model the progress of inequality, as reflected in Gini coefficients, 90/10 and 50/10 percentile ratios in the region. We … find that the bulk of the measured rise is inequality from the 1930s to the 1960s is due to changing survey methods and … to a later broad focus on the population. Finally, we predict the pattern of inequality over time that might have been …