Calmon, Paulo du Pin; Conceicao, Pedro; Galbraith, James K. - 2001
Industrial data are used to derive estimates of the pattern of change in wage inequality in Mexico and Brazil. Using … the group decomposition of Theil's T-statistic, the paper presents monthly changes in the dispersion of industrial wages … for Brazil (1976 through 1995) and for Mexico (1968 through 1998). Both countries show increases in wage dispersion over …