Inequality and Mexico?s labor market after trade reform
By César Bouillon (01/02, En, Es) See also Poverty and Inequality
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This study analyzes the increase of labor income inequality in Mexico after trade reform and the liberalization of the balance of payments in 1985. As measured by the Gini coefficient, between 1984 and 1994 individual labor income inequality rose about 9 percentage points and per capita household labor income inequality rose 7 points (table 1). These increases, offset slightly by a decrease in the inequality of non-labor income, resulted in an increase in per capita household income inequality of around 6 points.
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