This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … have shaped Argentina’s income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The … particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina. …

This paper documents the changes in the income distribution in Argentina from the mid-1970s to the mid-2000s. Over the … period inequality increased substantially. Two types of episodes have shaped this upward trend: deep macroeconomic crises and … periods of sudden and intense economic liberalization. The sizeable rise in inequality in the 1990s seems to be associated to …

This paper documents patterns and recent developments on different dimensions of inequality in Latin America and the … Caribbean (LAC). New comparative international evidence confirms that LAC is a region of high inequality, although maybe not the … highest in the world. Income inequality has fallen in the 2000s, suggesting a turning point from the significant increases of …

factor behind the significant increase in household income inequality in the 90s. The results of the microsimulations suggest … a small poverty-reducing effect of several potential scenarios, including education upgrading, sectoral transformations …, labor informality reduction, gender and race wage gap closing, and changes in the structure of the returns to education …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

We examine the drivers of inequality change in Honduras between 1991-2007, trying to understand why inequality …, we document first rising inequality between 1991-2005, which is followed by falling inequality thereafter. Using an … inequality decomposition technique, we show that the rising inequality between 1991 and 2005 was, for the most part, driven by …

distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed distribution stability between both years. The returns to education have …This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in … order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important …

poverty and the size of the middle class. -- Inequality ; poverty middle class ; distribution ; non-parametrics ; Argentina. …We present a detailed description of the drastic changes in many aspects of the distribution of income in Argentina …, complementing a recent study by Gasparini and Cruces (2009), who focus mostly on inequality. We use modern descriptive tools to …

We present a detailed description of the drastic changes in many aspects of the distribution of income in Argentina …, complementing a recent study by Gasparini and Cruces (2009), who focus mostly on inequality. We use modern descriptive tools to … provide a complete map of the changes in many aspects of the distribution of income, and stress the fact that other key …

distributive effects were hidden by the apparent observed distribution stability between both years. The returns to education have …This paper analyses the changes in inequality occurred during the period 1998 - 2005. A set of results are presented in … order to contribute to a better understanding of the changes in inequality. The obtained results show that important …