Inequality and the changing nature of work in Peru

Paola Ballon and Jorge Davalos

No wp-2020-168, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: This paper identifies the socioeconomic drivers of earnings inequality in Peru in the period 2004-18. Using the ENAHO household surveys and data on routine task content of occupations, we apply inequality decomposition methods to the real earnings distribution, its quantiles, and the Gini index. We find that in this period inequality has reduced, with great improvement attributed to reductions in the gender wage gap and macroeconomic factors.

Keywords: Earnings; Decomposition methods; Inequality; Peru; Earnings inequality (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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