Latin American earnings inequality in the long run
This paper traces between-group earnings inequality for six Latin American countries over two centuries based on wage and income series compiled from a large array of primary and secondary sources. We find that inequality varied substantially by country and by period, questioning the notion that col...
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ftupompeufabra:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/42315 2023-05-15T17:32:20+02:00 Latin American earnings inequality in the long run Arroyo Abad, Leticia Astorga Junquera, Pablo application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42315 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-016-0150-9 eng eng Springer Latin American earnings inequality in the long run. Cliometrica. 2017 Sep;11(3):349–74 Arroyo Abad L, Astorga Junquera P. Latin American earnings inequality in the long run. Cliometrica. 2017 Sep;11(3):349–74. DOI:10.1007/s11698-016-0150-9 1863-2505 http://hdl.handle.net/10230/42315 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11698-016-0150-9 © Springer The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-016-0150-9 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Economic history Economic development Income inequality Latin America info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion ftupompeufabra https://doi.org/10.1007/s11698-016-0150-9 2021-08-03T23:19:15Z This paper traces between-group earnings inequality for six Latin American countries over two centuries based on wage and income series compiled from a large array of primary and secondary sources. We find that inequality varied substantially by country and by period, questioning the notion that colonial legacies largely dominated the evolution of inequality. There is a broader inequality trajectory over the long run in the form of an “m” pattern with peaks around 1880 and the 1990s and a trough around 1920/1930s. Export-led growth does not necessarily imply a rise in inequality, while the import-substitution industrialisation efforts did not translate into a more egalitarian distribution of income. More notably, Latin America’s experience does not exhibit the great inequality levelling as seen in the North Atlantic economies from the 1930s to the 1970s. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic UPF Digital Repository (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) Cliometrica 11 3 349 374 |
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This paper traces between-group earnings inequality for six Latin American countries over two centuries based on wage and income series compiled from a large array of primary and secondary sources. We find that inequality varied substantially by country and by period, questioning the notion that colonial legacies largely dominated the evolution of inequality. There is a broader inequality trajectory over the long run in the form of an “m” pattern with peaks around 1880 and the 1990s and a trough around 1920/1930s. Export-led growth does not necessarily imply a rise in inequality, while the import-substitution industrialisation efforts did not translate into a more egalitarian distribution of income. More notably, Latin America’s experience does not exhibit the great inequality levelling as seen in the North Atlantic economies from the 1930s to the 1970s. |
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