Parro, Francisco; Reyes, Loreto - In: Latin American Economic Review 26 (2017) 1, pp. 1-31
This paper presents evidence on a rise and fall in income inequality in Chile during the past two decades. We show that income inequality rises from 1990 to 2000 and then falls from 2000 to 2011. We perform simple but informative decompositions to figure out the contributing factors behind that...