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This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005022027
This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more … income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare and polarization. Inequality has moderately increased in South … America in the last decade. The two main exceptions are Argentina, with a very large inequality increase, and Brazil, where …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005258452
After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646663
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 … database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012164610
After a decade of strong progress toward the goal of reducing the high levels of income disparities, there are clear … 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011459691
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 … database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011929393
changes, income growth and others). Unexpectedly enough, the resulting prospects for agriculture and food are not catastrophic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014182912
authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481815
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011418626
This paper evaluates the impact of education on measured inequality across the wage distribution using pooled records … from the 2005 and 2010 Cameroon labour force surveys, wage equations and standard inequality measures. Returns to education … returns to education for the period 2005-10 largest for the 5th and 10th percentiles. Inequality decreased from the lower to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010467077