Is Inequality Really Declining in Latin America?: Evidence on Income, Wealth and the Social Structure

• Andrés Solimano ^[1]
  1. [1] Centro Internacional de Globalización y Desarrollo, CIGLOB, Chile
• Localización: Revista de economía mundial, ISSN 1576-0162, Nº 43, 2016, págs. 69-91
• Idioma: inglés
• Títulos paralelos:
  • ¿Está realmente disminuyendo la desigualdad en América Latina?: Evidencias sobre los ingresos, la riqueza y la estructura social
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  • español

    Este artículo examina varias dimensiones de la desigualdad en la región de América Latina centrándose en los top income shares y los coeficientes de Gini, los wealth shares y la distribución de la riqueza. Se compara la desigualdad de ingresos en función de las encuestas a hogares y la desigualdad de ingresos a partir de datos tributarios, lo que muestra que, en el primer caso se tiende a subestimar las tasas más altas y los coeficientes de Gini y, por tanto, el grado de desigualdad. La estructura social se evalúa para las élites econó- micas, la clase media y los trabajadores pobres.

  • English

    This paper examines several dimensions of inequality in theLatin American region focusing on top income shares and Gini coefficients, top wealth shares and the size wealth distribution. Itc ompares inequality of income according to household surveys and income inequality using tax data showing the former tends to underestimate top shares and gini coefficients and therefore the extent of inequality. The social structure is assesed for economic elites, the middle class and the working poor.

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