This article provides a tool to study over time the distributions of income in a population, regardless the irregular distribution of data. We even approach Lorenz curves at the times when we lack the required data. Finally we apply the present technique to a European country where inequalities...

In this article I review the current state of our knowledge of what factors account for labor income and wealth inequality among households. In particular, I stress that shocks to labor incomes suffice to generate observable differences between the wealth of the households. (Copyright:...

In Del Río and Ruiz-Castillo (2000) a new concept of intermediate inequality between the absolute and relative concept was proposed, and empirical procedures for a welfare analysis à la Shorrocks (1983) were developed. The aim of this paper is to use this methodology to difine a new concept,...

En el presente trabajo se analiza la influencia de las curvas de Lorenz, el Principio de Transferencias y las relaciones de mayoración entre vectores de renta sobre las medidas de desigualdad. De esta forma, se pasa revista al desarrollo histórico que ha permitido diseñar el conjunto actual...

This paper studies inequality of opportunity on earnings among young argentines. It aims to contribute to measure this phenomenon and it uses information from household surveys conducted in Argentina from 2004 to the present. Sample selection into employment and co-residence selection is dealt...

In recent years empirical research about economic growth’s determinants has tended to incorporate political and social factors as explanatory variables, motivated by the evidence arisen from traditional analysis that the differences in countries’ economic performance can not be explained...

The mutualist movement of the industrial era took root in the Iberian Peninsula and Europe, but also in Latin America, from midway through the XIX century. The Spanish Associations Act of 1887 treated the benefit and mutual, or friendly societies as one more method of association. The first...