Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Pablo Astorga, Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals

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Astorga InequalityDataset.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 174.1 KB 08/13/2024 06:31:AM
Calculation Fiscal Ginis.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 117.9 KB 08/11/2024 09:33:PM
Calculation G4W&G3W.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 422.8 KB 08/13/2024 05:29:AM
Calculation GB4&GB3.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 59.6 KB 08/13/2024 05:35:AM
Calculation Gg1.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 250.5 KB 08/13/2024 05:32:AM
Guide to contents.pdf application/pdf 174.2 KB 08/13/2024 05:24:AM
Income ratios.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 68.4 KB 08/13/2024 05:56:AM
Mean income by group.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 101.6 KB 08/13/2024 03:38:AM
OA1 Data.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 161.7 KB 08/13/2024 03:36:AM
OA2 Data.xlsx application/vnd.openxmlformats-officedocument.spreadsheetml.sheet 150.1 KB 08/13/2024 03:30:AM

Project Citation: 

Astorga, Pablo. Long-Term Income Inequality in Latin America. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2024-08-13. https://doi.org/10.3886/E208482V1

Project Description

Summary:  View help for Summary
This is the replication package for Astorga, Pablo. 2024. Revealing the diversity and complexity of long-term income inequality in Latin America: 1920-2011. Journal of Economic History, 84(4).This paper analyses and documents new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Venezuela based on dynamic social tables with four occupational groups.  This enables the calculation of comparable Overall (4 groups) and Labor Ginis (3 groups) with their between- and within-groups components. The main findings are: the absence of a unique inequality pattern over time; country outcomes characterized by trajectory diversity and level divergence during industrialization, and by commonality and convergence post 1980; the occurrence of inequality-levelling episodes with different timing and length; and significant changes in trends, but also evidence indicating persistence.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources MCIU/AEI/FEDER, UE (PGC2018-095821-B-I00)

Scope of Project

Subject Terms:  View help for Subject Terms economic development; inconme inequality; industrialisation
Geographic Coverage:  View help for Geographic Coverage Latin America
Time Period(s):  View help for Time Period(s) 1920 – 2011
Data Type(s):  View help for Data Type(s) administrative records data; census/enumeration data; survey data

Methodology

Data Source:  View help for Data Source Industrial Censuses
Industrial surveys
Wage data
Yearbook of Labour Statistics
Yearbook of Industrial Statistics

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