Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys

This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household income inequality, we also report results on aggregate welfare...

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Autor principal: Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos
Formato: Objeto de conferencia
Lenguaje:Inglés
Publicado: 2003
Materias:
Ciencias Económicas
inequality
distribution
income
wages
education
Latin America
Caribbean
Acceso en línea:http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170374
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spelling I19-R120-10915-1703742024-09-20T04:08:38Z http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/170374 Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys Gasparini, Leonardo Carlos 2003-11 2003 2024-09-19T16:52:07Z en Ciencias Económicas inequality distribution income wages education Latin America Caribbean This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household 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 inequality actually decreased. Changes have not been significant in Central America and the Caribbean. Aggregate welfare has increased in most countries fueled by economic growth and despite unequalizing distributional changes. Facultad de Ciencias Económicas Objeto de conferencia Objeto de conferencia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) application/pdf
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inequality
distribution
income
wages
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Latin America
Caribbean
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distribution
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wages
education
Latin America
Caribbean
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Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
topic_facet Ciencias Económicas
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distribution
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wages
education
Latin America
Caribbean
description This paper reports information on income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean computed from a sample of more than 50 household surveys from 20 LAC countries from 1989 to 2001. Although the core of the statistics is on household 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 inequality actually decreased. Changes have not been significant in Central America and the Caribbean. Aggregate welfare has increased in most countries fueled by economic growth and despite unequalizing distributional changes.
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title Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
title_short Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
title_full Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
title_fullStr Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
title_full_unstemmed Income inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean: evidence from household surveys
title_sort income inequality in latin america and the caribbean: evidence from household surveys
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