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Argentina's Distributional Failure: The Role of Integration and Public Policy

Gasparini, Leonardo - Inter-American Development Bank - 2003

This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality … raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and …

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Inequality and Mexico's Labor Market after Trade Reform

Bouillon, Cesar Patricio - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

inequality experienced by Mexico after the 1985 trade and financial liberalization. To do so, the paper uses data from Mexican … counterfactual methodology to measure the effects on inequality of changes in labor force participation, unemployment, structure of …

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The 1990s in Latin America: Another Decade of Persistent Inequality

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

This paper argues that there is no country in Latin America where we can confidently say that income inequality … increases in inequality among the first nine deciles. In the remaining 5, the reason is a greater concentration among the …, inequality has increased less in this region than in developed countries and in Eastern Europe. …

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Household Saving in Developing Countries - Inequality, Demographics and All That: How Different are Latin America and South East Asia?

Attanasio, Orazio P.; Székely, Miguel - Inter-American Development Bank - 2000

East Asia and Latin America have diverged in several dimensions in the past three decades. This paper compares household saving behavior in two countries in each region (Mexico, Peru, Thailand and Taiwan). We make four contributions. First, we provide the first comparisons of savings in these...

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Why Don't We Tax the Rich? Inequality, Legislative Malapportionment, and Personal Income Taxation around the World

Scartascini, Carlos G.; Ardanaz, Martín - Inter-American Development Bank - 2011

This paper argues that the details of political institutions help explain the low levels of personal income taxation. In particular, legislative malapportionment enables rich elites to exercise disproportionate political influence. Because over-represented districts tend to be dominated by...

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What's Behind the Inequality We Measure: An Investigation Using Latin American Data

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - Inter-American Development Bank - 1999

inequality measured in a conventional way is to a large extent an illusion created by differences in characteristics of the data … and on the particular ways in which the data is treated; b) Our ideas about the effect of inequality on economic growth …) Standard household surveys in LAC are unable to capture the incomes of the richest sectors of society; so, the inequality we …

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Revista Integración & Comercio: Año 5 : No. 15 : Septiembre-diciembre, 2001 Title: Integration & Trade Journal: Volume 5 : No. 15 : September-December, 2001

Dijck, Pitou van; Nicholls, Shelton; Nicholls, Garth; … - Inter-American Development Bank - 2002

of the environment in development, income inequality and the economic conditions in Haiti. Throughout this project, the …

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Intergenerational Social Mobility in Latin America: A Review of Existing Evidence Title: Movilidad social intergeneracional en América Latina: Una revision de la evidencia actual

Azevedo, Viviane; Bouillon, César P. - Inter-American Development Bank - 2010

This article reviews evidence on intergenerational social mobility in Latin America. Results indicate that mobility is low in the Region. The evidence also suggests high levels of immobility at the income distribution's lower and upper tails. While intergenerational education mobility has...

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Sociómetro Title: Sociómetro

Inter-American Development Bank; Inter-American … - 1990

To capture social conditions in Latin America, the Sociómetro-BID database presents a diverse set of social indicators, both traditional and LAC-specific, including demographics, education, labor market, housing, and income. The indicators are derived from national household survey data,...

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