La pobreza y la desigualdad son problemas sociales centrales en América Latina. Este libro desarrolla las principales discusiones conceptuales sobre estos temas, provee un amplio conjunto de herramientas analíticas, las aplica a datos concretos de encuestas de hogares y ofrece evidencia para...

We apply a variant of the microeconometric decomposition methodology proposed in Bourguignon et al. (1998) to assess the relevance of various factors that affected inequality in the period 1986-1998 in the Greater Buenos Aires area. The results of the paper suggest that the small change in...

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent...