Market and Inequality Revisited

Alejandro Mercado () and Tirza J. Aguilar
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Tirza J. Aguilar: IISEC, Universidad Católica Boliviana

No 1/2006, Documentos de trabajo from Instituto de Investigaciones Socio-Económicas (IISEC), Universidad Católica Boliviana

Abstract: The great controversy regarding the results of the application of market-oriented policies on the population's conditions of life, especially about the inequality in the distribution of income, has constituted 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 an 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. Instituto de Investigaciones Socio - Económicas, IISEC

Keywords: Economic Structure in Bolivia; Market; Instituto de Investigaciones Socio - Económicas; IISEC (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Z00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 20 pages
Date: 2006-02-01
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