Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)

This paper analyzes the dynamics of economic inequality during the last two decades in Argentina. It addresses the changes and continuities of the income distribution under cycles of economic expansion, stagnation and crisis. Specifically, from the relationship established between households and the...

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Autor principal: Robles, Ramiro Enrique
Formato: Artículo revista
Lenguaje:Español
Publicado: Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin 2022
Materias:
Structural Heterogeneity
Economic Inequality
Income Distribution
Heterogeneidad estructural
Desigualdad Económica
Distribución del Ingreso
Acceso en línea:https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/3676
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Repositorio de Revistas Electrónicas REVELE (UNComahue) de Universidad Nacional del Comahue
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spelling I22-R128-article-36762024-04-09T11:54:52Z Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020) Desigualdad económica y heterogeneidad ocupacional en la Argentina contemporánea (2003-2020) Robles, Ramiro Enrique Structural Heterogeneity Economic Inequality Income Distribution Heterogeneidad estructural Desigualdad Económica Distribución del Ingreso This paper analyzes the dynamics of economic inequality during the last two decades in Argentina. It addresses the changes and continuities of the income distribution under cycles of economic expansion, stagnation and crisis. Specifically, from the relationship established between households and the productive structure through the labour market, under conditions of persistent occupational and structural heterogeneity. The hypothesis of this work is that the argentine distributive dynamics of the last two decades involve the superposition of: a) limited changes, that closely follow the expansive, and later contractive, nature of economic cycles; and b) the maintenance of the main patterns of inequality that arise from structural conditions in the labour market, and the location of households in relation to it. To approach this, the paper presents a decomposition model of the Theil index to analyze the effects of the configuration of the socio-occupational structure on income inequality in each instance. The main findings point to initial improvements in economic inequality, linked to moderate falls of between group inequalities and inner-group income dispersion. However, once this rather limited process is over, inequality rises again, especially due to worsening opportunities in the labour market and regressive changes in the occupational structure. Este escrito analiza la dinámica de la desigualdad económica durante los ciclos político-económicos de las últimas dos décadas. El trabajo aborda los cambios y continuidades en la distribución de los ingresos, bajo etapas de expansión, estancamiento y crisis, desde la relación que establecen los hogares con el mercado de trabajo, en condiciones de heterogeneidad ocupacional y estructural persistentes. La hipótesis de este trabajo, de inspiración estructuralista latinoamericana, es que la dinámica distributiva argentina involucra la superposición de: a) cambios limitados entre las distintas etapas, primero expansivos y luego regresivos; y b) la permanencia de los principales patrones de desigualdad que surgen de condicionantes estructurales a la inserción laboral de los hogares. Se presenta un modelo de descomposición del cambio en el índice de Theil para poder analizar los efectos de la configuración de la estructura socio-ocupacional sobre la desigualdad de ingresos en cada instancia. Inicialmente, se habrían registrado descensos en la disparidad por ingresos, a raíz de las menores distancias entre grupos y su menor dispersión. Sin embargo, tras este proceso limitado se registra un nuevo ascenso de la desigualdad económica, especialmente por el empeoramiento de las oportunidades laborales y los cambios regresivos en la estructura ocupacional. Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin 2022-05-05 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion application/pdf https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/3676 Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales; Vol. 25 Núm. 1 (2022): Revista Pilquen. Sección Ciencias Sociales; 1-25 1851-3123 1666-0579 spa https://revele.uncoma.edu.ar/index.php/Sociales/article/view/3676/60695 Derechos de autor 1998 Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica, Universidad Nacional del Comahue https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0
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topic Structural Heterogeneity
Economic Inequality
Income Distribution
Heterogeneidad estructural
Desigualdad Económica
Distribución del Ingreso
spellingShingle Structural Heterogeneity
Economic Inequality
Income Distribution
Heterogeneidad estructural
Desigualdad Económica
Distribución del Ingreso
Robles, Ramiro Enrique
Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
topic_facet Structural Heterogeneity
Economic Inequality
Income Distribution
Heterogeneidad estructural
Desigualdad Económica
Distribución del Ingreso
author Robles, Ramiro Enrique
author_facet Robles, Ramiro Enrique
author_sort Robles, Ramiro Enrique
title Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
title_short Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
title_full Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
title_fullStr Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
title_full_unstemmed Economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary Argentina (2003-2020)
title_sort economic inequality and occupational heterogeneity in contemporary argentina (2003-2020)
description This paper analyzes the dynamics of economic inequality during the last two decades in Argentina. It addresses the changes and continuities of the income distribution under cycles of economic expansion, stagnation and crisis. Specifically, from the relationship established between households and the productive structure through the labour market, under conditions of persistent occupational and structural heterogeneity. The hypothesis of this work is that the argentine distributive dynamics of the last two decades involve the superposition of: a) limited changes, that closely follow the expansive, and later contractive, nature of economic cycles; and b) the maintenance of the main patterns of inequality that arise from structural conditions in the labour market, and the location of households in relation to it. To approach this, the paper presents a decomposition model of the Theil index to analyze the effects of the configuration of the socio-occupational structure on income inequality in each instance. The main findings point to initial improvements in economic inequality, linked to moderate falls of between group inequalities and inner-group income dispersion. However, once this rather limited process is over, inequality rises again, especially due to worsening opportunities in the labour market and regressive changes in the occupational structure.
publisher Centro Universitario Regional Zona Atlántica - Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Argentin
publishDate 2022
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