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Economic Polarisation in Latin America and the Caribbean: What do Household Surveys Tell Us?
Gasparini, Leonardo; Horenstein, Matías; Olivieri, Sergio - 2006
polarisation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries. The study is based on a dataset of household surveys from 21 LAC … countries in the period 1989-2004. Latin America is characterised by a high level of economic polarisation, compared to other … regions in the world. On average, income polarisation has mildly increased in the region since the early 1990s. The country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941093
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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Molina, Ezequiel - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941096
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Income Distribution, Institutions and Conflicts: An Exploratory Analysis for Latin America and the Caribbean
Gasparini, Leonardo; Molina, Ezequiel - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022038
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Labor Income Polarization in Greater Buenos Aires
Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - 2009
This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429293
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Labor Income Polarization in Greater Buenos Aires
Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional … - 2009
This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008476431
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Labor income polarization in greater Buenos Aires
Viollaz, Mariana; Olivieri, Sergio; Alejo, Javier - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
This paper presents and analyzes a group of statistics which characterize the level and evolution of the labor income polarization in Greater Buenos Aires over the past two decades (1986-2006). The empirical evidence reveals two stages throughout those years: the first one distinguished by an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114452
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REDISTRIBUTION
Boadway, Robin; Keen, Michael - 1999
This paper, prepared for the Handbook of Income Distribution (edited by A.B. Atkinson and F. Bourguignon), reviews some of the central issues that arise in thinking about the motives for, politics of, constraints on and measurement of, redistribution. Amongst the themes are: the potential...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940612
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Absolute or relative: Perceptions of inequality among young adults in Mozambique
Barletta, Giulia; Ferreira, Ines A.; Salvucci, Vincenzo - 2023
Different concepts of inequality lead to different positions in discussions about whether economic growth leads to … increasing inequality. This study investigates how over 1,100 young adults in Mozambique perceive inequality and whether their … believe that inequality in their neighbourhood is too high and that circumstances beyond their control explain why some people …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014477476
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A temporal analysis of wealth in eighteenth-century Ottoman Kastamonu
Cosgel, Metin; Ergene, Bogac A.; Kaygun, Atabey - Department of Economics, University of Connecticut - 2013
inequality. The article explores the factors that contributed to these trends and discusses the relevance of our findings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010888380
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Polarization and the Middle Class
Borraz, Fernando; Pampillón, Nicolás Gonzalez; Rossi, … - Departamento de Economía, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales - 2011
by an increasing income inequality, we Önd that the middle class declined and income polarization increased. In the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009291561