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Decomposing the Recent Inequality Decline in Latin America
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2013
Policy Research Working Papers
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Over the past decade, 12 of 14 Latin American countries have experienced a reduction in inequality. Based on a series of counterfactual simulations, the observed changes in inequality are decomposed in order to identify the main determinants of inequality. In contrast to methods that focus on aggregate summary statistics, the method adopted in this paper generates counterfactual distributions, so that the analysis can account for changes related to demographics, occupation, labor earnings and
doi:10.1596/1813-9450-6715
fatcat:ceqlj5uwljfcthri6acpsztqhu