Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach

Autores
Tornarolli, Leopoldo; Ciaschi, Matías; Galeano, Luciana María
Año de publicación
2018
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While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income inequality in the region has caught the attention of researchers and policy makers around the world. Taking advantage of a large database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality in all Latin American countries for the period 1992-2015. It also provides an analysis of how the distinctive evolution of income inequality in this century in Latin America has changed the position of the different countries of the region in both, the global distribution of income in the world and the global distribution of income in Latin America. Finally, the paper decomposes the evolution of income inequality in several countries of the region, discussing the role played by several factors on that evolution.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
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title Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
spellingShingle Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
Tornarolli, Leopoldo
Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
title_short Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_full Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_fullStr Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_full_unstemmed Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
title_sort Income Distribution in Latin America: The Evolution in the Last 20 Years: A Global Approach
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Tornarolli, Leopoldo
Ciaschi, Matías
Galeano, Luciana María
author Tornarolli, Leopoldo
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Ciaschi, Matías
Galeano, Luciana María
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Galeano, Luciana María
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dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
topic Ciencias Económicas
América Latina
inequality
income
distribution
dc.description.none.fl_txt_mv While Latin America has historically been considered a region of very high inequality, the performance of most Latin American countries in terms of reduction of income inequality has been remarkable good in the first decade of this century. Given that those improvements took place in a context of rising inequality in most of the world, the evolution of income inequality in the region has caught the attention of researchers and policy makers around the world. Taking advantage of a large database of comparable microdata from household surveys, this article updates the evidence on the trends of income inequality in all Latin American countries for the period 1992-2015. It also provides an analysis of how the distinctive evolution of income inequality in this century in Latin America has changed the position of the different countries of the region in both, the global distribution of income in the world and the global distribution of income in Latin America. Finally, the paper decomposes the evolution of income inequality in several countries of the region, discussing the role played by several factors on that evolution.
Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
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