The microeconomics of income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America / François Bourguignon, Francisco H.G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig, editors.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Bourguignon, François.

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.

Lustig, Nora.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Income distribution--Southeast Asia.

Income distribution.

Income distribution--Taiwan.

Income distribution--Latin America.

Latin America.

Southeast Asia--Economic conditions.

Southeast Asia.

Economic conditions.

Taiwan--Economic conditions.

Taiwan.

Latin America--Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xx, 416 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Other Title:

Income distribution dynamics in East Asia and Latin America

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : World Bank ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2005]

Summary:

Economists have had much to say about what causes aggregate economic growth, but they have been more reticent about the distributional dimension of that growth. Understanding development and the process of poverty reduction requires understanding not only how total income grows but also how its distribution behaves over time. This book is a major new contribution to that process. The authors propose a decomposition of differences in entire distributions of household incomes, shedding new light on the powerful, and often conflicting, forces that underpin the changes in poverty and inequality that accompany the process of economic development. This approach is applied to three East Asian countries--Indonesia, Malaysia, and China--and to four in Latin American--Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico.

Contents:

2 Decomposing Changes in the Distribution of Household Incomes: Methodological Aspects / Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira 17

3 Characterization of Inequality Changes through Microeconometric Decompositions: The Case of Greater Buenos Aires / Leonardo Gasparini, Mariana Marchionni, Walter Sosa Escudero 47

4 The Slippery Slope: Explaining the Increase in Extreme Poverty in Urban Brazil, 1976-96 / Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Ricardo Paes de Barros 83

5 The Reversal of Inequality Trends in Colombia, 1978-95: A Combination of Persistent and Fluctuating Forces / Carlos Educardo Velez, Jose Leibovich, Adriana Kugler, Cesar Bouillon, Jairo Nunez 125

6 The Evolution of Income Distribution during Indonesia's Fast Growth, 1980-96 / Vivi Alatas, Francois Bourguignon 175

7 The Microeconomics of Changing Income Distribution in Malaysia / Gary S. Fields, Sergei Soares 219

8 Can Education Explain Changes in Income Inequality in Mexico? / Arianna Legovini, Cesar Bouillon, Nora Lustig 275

9 Distribution, Development, and Education in Taiwan, China, 1979-94 / Francois Bourguignon, Martin Fournier, Marc Gurgand 313

10 A Synthesis of the Results / Francois Bourguignon, Francisco H. G. Ferreira, Nora Lustig 357

3.1 Gini Coefficient of Equivalent Household Income Distribution in Greater Buenos Aires, 1985-98 49

3.2 Hourly Earnings-Education Profiles for Men (Heads of Household and Other Family Members), Age 40 55

3.3 Hourly Earnings-Education Profiles for Women (Spouses), Age 40 56

3.4 Weekly Hours of Work by Educational Level for Men (Heads of Household), Age 40 59

4.1 Macroeconomic Instability in Brazil: Inflation 84

4.2 Macroeconomic Instability in Brazil: Per Capita GDP 84

4.3 Truncated Pen Parades, 1976-96 87

4.4 Plotted Quadratic Returns to Education (Wage Earners) 88

4.5 Plotted Quadratic Returns to Experience (Wage Earners) 89

4.6 Combined Price Effects by Sector 106

4.7 Price Effects Separately and for Both Sectors Combined 107

4.8 Occupational-Choice Effects 108

4.9 The Labor Market: Combining Price and Occupational-Choice Effects 109

4.10 Demographic Effects 110

4.11 Shift in the Distribution of Education, 1976-96 111

4.12 Education Endowment and Demographic Effects 112

4.13 A Complete Decomposition 113

5.1 Average Household Size by Income Decile in Urban Colombia, Selected Years 135.

Notes:

"A copublication of the World Bank and Oxford University Press."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0821358618

OCLC:

56590942