Income Inequality and Government Transfers in Mexico /

We analyze microdata from Mexico's survey on household income and expenditures (ENIGH) to study the evolution of income inequality in Mexico over 2004-16, identify its sources, and investigate how it was affected by government social policy. We find evidence of only a small decline in inequalit...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lambert, Frederic
Other Authors: Park, Hyunmin
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2019.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2019/148
Online Access:Full text available on IMF