Since the 1970s, Chile has exhibited a highly skewed income distribution accompanied with strong fluctuations over time. Although income distribution worsened notably in the 1970s-80s, a significant improvement was recorded in the first half of the 1990s, resulting from better economic and...

El objetivo central de esta investigacion es examinar los vinculos entre la tenencia de activos y la condicion de pobreza en el caso de la economia chilena. La seccion I presenta antecedentes de estudios previos de la pobreza en Chile y ofrece un panorama actualizado de las caracteristicas y de...