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Capital accumulation can modify the relative productivity between skilled and unskilled workers, thus leading to changes in the wage structure. In particular, if capital goods are relatively more complementary to skilled...

Using data from the National Urban Employment Survey, 1988-1999, this paper tries to separate the local and the national forces behind the increasing wage inequality in Mexico. The paper analyzes the trend of 3 different...

ESTE TRABALHO apresenta as diferenças nos rendimentos pessoais relacionados com raça e gênero, no Brasil dos últimos anos, identificando uma nítida hierarquia: homens brancos (não negros), mulheres brancas, homens ...

La gran mayoría de los estudios del ingreso no toman en cuenta la renta implícita que obtienen los hogares que viven en una casa propia. Esta omisión puede introducir un potencial sesgo de gran magnitud en medidas de ...

This paper applies newly developed methods for the computation of income polarization by Duclos-Esteban-Ray (2004) to the Argentine case between 1998 and 2002. We find that despite the slowdown in the growth of the inequ...

The papers included in this special issue of the journal Económica are the result of a long period of gestation. I am glad to see that the final outcome contains substantial value added. The project is one of the activi...