What's Behind the Inequality We Measure? An Investigation Using Latin American Data
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- 1 January 2000
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- Published by Elsevier in SSRN Electronic Journal
Abstract
The use of income distribution indicators in the economics literature has increased considerably in recent years. This work relies on household surveys from 18Keywords
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