Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0

Author-Name: Javier Alejo
Author-Workplace-Name: Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Universidad Nacional de La Plata. CONICET


Title: Relación de Kuznets en América Latina. Explorando más allá de la media condicional


Abstract: This paper studies the Kuznets relationship for a set of Latin American countries with the aim of characterizing the change in the evolution trend of the regional inequality indicators. Distributional changes are related with a lot of observable factors linked to development variables such as economic growth or human capital stock. However, there are many non-measurable inequality determinants like history or regional idiosyncrasies. The incorporation of conditional quantiles to the Kuznets relationship analysis can help to explain whether the unobservable factors can generate alternative paths for development and inequality.




Classification-JEL: C15, D31, I38

Keywords: Kuznets hypothesis, Economic development, Inequality, Latin America, Panel data, Quantile regression.

Journal: Económica

Pages: 3-55
Volume: 59
Year: 2013
Month: January-December
File-URL: https://revistas.unlp.edu.ar/Economica/article/view/5352/4380
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:akh:journl:585