THE EVOLUTION OF THE EARNINGS DISTRIBUTION IN A VOLATILE ECONOMY: EVIDENCE FROM ARGENTINA

Andrés Blanco (), Bernardo Díaz de Astarloa (), Andrés Drenik (), Christian Moser and Danilo Trupkin
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Andrés Blanco: University of Michigan
Andrés Drenik: University of Texas at Austin

No 2022-69, Documentos de trabajo del Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política IIEP (UBA-CONICET) from Universidad de Buenos Aires, Facultad de Ciencias Económicas, Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política IIEP (UBA-CONICET)

Abstract: This paper studies earnings inequality and dynamics in Argentina between 1996 and 2015. Following the 2001–2002 crisis, the Argentine economy transitioned from a low- to a high-inflation regime. At the same time, the number of collective bargaining agreements increased, and minimum wage adjustments became more frequent. We document that this macroeconomic transition was associated with a persistent decrease in the dispersion of real earnings and cyclical movements in higher-order moments of the distribution of earnings changes. To understand this transition at the micro level, we estimate processes of regular wages within job spells. As the Argentine economy transitioned from low to high inflation, the monthly frequency of regular-wage adjustments almost doubled, while the distribution of regular-wage changes morphed from having a mode close to zero and being positively skewed to having a positive mode and being more symmetric.

Keywords: Earnings inequality; Earnings volatility; Earnings mobility; Wage rigidity; Inflation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D31 E24 E31 J31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 93 pages
Date: 2022-02
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