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Market and Inequality Revisited

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  • Mercado, Alejandro F.

    (Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo")

  • Aguilar, Tirza J.

    (IISEC Universidad Católica Boliviana "San Pablo")

Abstract

The great controversy regarding the results of the aplication of market-oriented policies on the population`s conditions of life, especially about the inequality in the distribution of income, has constituyed the concern that has given origin to this paper. with the objective to test the hypothesis that a free market structure promotes a better income distribution, we have carried out several quantifications of inequality indices in the different structures of the labor market in Bolivia; also, a microsimulation model has been applied, to see whether change toward a market-oriented structure can improve the distribution of income and, lastly, we have carried out and exercise to link income inequality with social mobility. The reached results, although they are not the sufficiently strong to validate the hypothesis, are sufficiently clear to show us that the free market policies do not act in a negative way on the income distribution.

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  • Mercado, Alejandro F. & Aguilar, Tirza J., 2006. "Market and Inequality Revisited," Revista Latinoamericana de Desarrollo Economico, Carrera de Economía de la Universidad Católica Boliviana (UCB) "San Pablo", issue 6, pages 147-174, Abril.
    • Handle: RePEc:ris:revlde:0605
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    1. Beatriz Muriel Hernández, 2016. "An Analysis of Firm Characteristics as Earnings Determinants: The Urban Bolivia Case," Development Research Working Paper Series 04/2016, Institute for Advanced Development Studies.

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    market; Bolivia;

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    • Z00 - Other Special Topics - - General - - - General

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