This paper explores the contribution of the minimum wage to the well documented rise in earnings inequality in Mexico … entire rise in inequality at the bottom of the distribution. Our result challenges the widespread perception that trade … induced shocks are the single most important factor behind the recent rise in earnings inequality in several less developed …

negative relationship between growth and income inequality observed in the cross-country data and the positive relationship … driven by formal sector human capital spillovers. Restrictive institutions impose barriers to formality that reduce the … growth rate and increase inequality. Redistributive taxation lowers inequality but blunts the incentive to accumulate …

suggest that: (a) increasing property rights protection increases income inequality; (b) this effect is larger in low …-democracy environments; (c) few countries have developed political institutions capable of counterbalancing this effect. …

economies, economic institutions, such as property rights systems, may act to preserve the interests of a rich minority, but …. Results suggest that: (a) increasing the protection of property rights increases income inequality; (b) such an effect is … larger in low-democracy environments; (c) a minority of countries have developed a set political institutions capable of …

inequality and in the incidence of labor informality, while similar changes also took place in other Latin American countries … on the relation between informality and wage inequality through a RIF-based regression decomposition analysis which …. These trends were observed in a period of strong economic dynamism. Most extended explanations for this declining inequality …

This paper presents new evidence on the relationship between corruption and income inequality. Using a panel data … methodology, we find that lower corruption is associated with higher income inequality in Latin America. This result is in … relationship between inequality and corruption suggests that institutional reform policies by themselves may be misguided. …