This paper discusses two issues in the relationship between inequality and economic growth: the data and the econometrics. We first review the income inequality data set of Deininger and Squire (D&S), which, we argue, fails to provide either adequate or accurate coverage, whether through time or...

Industrial data are used to derive estimates of the pattern of change in wage inequality in Mexico and Brazil. Using the group decomposition of Theil's T-statistic, the paper presents monthly changes in the dispersion of industrial wages for Brazil (1976 through 1995) and for Mexico (1968...

This paper focuses on two questions. First, how did inequality in the industrial wage structure of Brazil evolve from 1985 to 1995? Second, what is the relationship between these dynamics and economic policy? We display the evolution of wage inequality in Brazil and relate this evolution to...