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La frontera de posibilidades de desigualdad en América Latina

This paper presents new evidence of the inequality possibility frontier and the inequality extraction ratio (how much potential inequality becomes real inequality) using a dataset from 18 countries of Latin America (LA) in the period 1990-2013. Comparing inequality in the world and within the region, we found that with this new measure LA is not as unequal as with traditional indicators. Finally, we link this new measure to social conflict. Countries with high rates of extraction ratio are more likely to have high levels of social conflict.

Language
Spanisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Documento de Trabajo ; No. 195

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Subject
desigualdad
frontera de posibilidades de desigualdad
tasa de extracción
América Latina

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Serrano, Joaquín
Benzaquén, Ivana
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)
(where)
La Plata
(when)
2015

Handle
Last update
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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Serrano, Joaquín
  • Benzaquén, Ivana
  • Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS)

Time of origin

  • 2015

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