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Argentina´s Distributional Failure: The role of Integration and Public Policies

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Leonardo Gasparini () (Centro de Estudios Distributivos, Laborales y Sociales (CEDLAS) - Universidad Nacional de La Plata)

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This paper documents the income distribution changes experienced by Argentina during the last decades. Inequality substantially increased, and despite economic growth during some periods, poverty also went significantly up. Two types of episodes have shaped Argentina’s income distribution: deep macroeconomic crisis and periods of openness and integration. The sizeable raise in inequality in the 90s seems to be associated to reallocations against unskilled-labor intensive sectors, and especially to skilled-biased technological change within most sectors, both factors stimulated by the process of economic integration. The depth and speed of the reforms and the absence of public policies to ease the transition contributed to the particular severity of the income distribution changes in Argentina.

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Paper provided by CEDLAS, Universidad Nacional de La Plata in its series Working Papers with number 0001.

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Length: 46 pages
Date of creation: Sep 2003
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Publication status: Published in Gustavo Márquez (ed.) (2005). Debate sobre el Impacto de la Globalización en los mercados de trabajo de América Latina. Inter-American Development Bank. Capítulo 1. (Spanish version)
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Keywords: inequality; distribution; globalization; integration; wages; education; Argentina;

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C15 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: General - - - Statistical Simulation Methods
D31 - Microeconomics - - Distribution - - - Personal Income and Wealth Distribution
I21 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Education - - - Analysis of Education
J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
J31 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Wages, Compensation, and Labor Costs - - - Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials

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