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 …

relevance of functional distribution in terms of explaining personal distribution underscores the importance of our results for … understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …

relevance of functional distribution in terms of explaining personal distribution underscores the importance of our results for … understanding recent increases in inequality. The empirical analysis performed herein involves a panel of 38 manufacturing and …

The evidence on growing inequality in OECD countries has raised an important debate over its main drivers, pointing out …

signs of a deceleration in the pace of inequality reduction in Latin America. This paper argues that the deceleration is the … result of two set of reasons. First, several of the driving factors of the fall in inequality in the 2000s have lost strength … early 2010s, making further reductions in inequality more difficult. …

While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin … American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century …. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income …