| Abstract: |
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. |