Post-reform trends in wage inequality : the case of urban Bolivia

by Julius Spatz and Susan Steiner

This paper seeks to contribute to the ongoing controversy on the distributional effects of structural reforms in developing countries. Applying inequality indices and Fields' (2001) decomposition methodology to Bolivian household survey data of the years 1989 to 1997, we identify recent trends in wage inequality of urban Bolivia. Using a rent-based dual-economy model, we can link these trends to the structural reforms undertaken in Bolivia since 1985.

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Year of publication:	September 2002
Authors:	Spatz, Julius ; Steiner, Susan
Publisher:	Kiel (Germany) : Kiel Institute of World Economics
Subject:	Structural Reforms \| Inequality \| Dual Economy \| Bolivia \| IWF-Kredit \| IMF lending \| Wirtschaftsreform \| Economic reform \| Wirkungsanalyse \| Impact assessment \| Einkommensverteilung \| Income distribution \| Städtische Armut \| Urban poverty \| Dualwirtschaft \| Dual economy \| Lohnstruktur \| Wage structure \| Rent-Seeking \| Rent seeking \| Schätzung \| Estimation \| Dekompositionsverfahren \| Decomposition method \| Theorie \| Theory \| Bolivien \| 1989-1997

Extent:	1 Online-Ressource (circa 61 Seiten) Illustrationen
Series:	Kiel working paper. - Kiel : [Verlag nicht ermittelbar], ISSN 1862-1155, ZDB-ID 2107612-1. - Vol. no. 1126
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Type of publication (narrower categories):	Graue Literatur ; Non-commercial literature ; Arbeitspapier ; Working Paper
Language:	English
Other identifiers:	hdl:10419/17796 [Handle]
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; J50 - Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining. General ; L16 - Industrial Organization and Macroeconomics; Macroeconomic Industrial Structure; Industrial Price Indices ; O17 - Formal and Informal Sectors; Shadow Economy; Institutional Arrangements
Source:	ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW

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