This paper contributes to understand the microeconomic determinants of household income dynamics in poverty and inequality in Chile during the 90’s . We use a microsimulation based on the decomposition of distributional changes, developed by Bourguignon et.al. (2000). We estimate a...

Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...