This paper discusses two issues in the relationship between inequality and economic growth: the data and the econometrics. We first review the income inequality data set of Deininger and Squire (D&S), which, we argue, fails to provide either adequate or accurate coverage, whether through time or...

We use industrial data to derive estimates of the pattern of change in wage inequality in Mexico and Brazil. Using the group-wise decomposition of Theil's T statistic we present monthly series of measurements of change in the dispersion of industrial wages for Brazil (1976 through 1995) and for...