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...

We use recent unconditional quantile regression methods (UQR) to study the distributive effects of education in Argentina. Standard methods usually focus on mean effects, or explore distributive effects by either making stringent modeling assumptions, and/or through counterfactual decompositions...

In Latin America the inequality of income has declined in the 2000s. This study applies a variant of the noparametric decomposition methodology proposed by Barros et al. (2006, 2007) to assess the relevance of the households' sources of income, focusing on the importance of public transfers, on...

This paper studies the evolution of intertemporal poverty indicators in Argentina for the past 15 years. We exploit the rotation scheme of the EPH survey to construct successive panels covering the period 1997-2012. This allows decomposing poverty into its chronic and transient components. The...