Poverty, Income Growth and Inequality in Paraguay During The 1990s: Spatial Aspects, Growth Determinants and Inequality Decomposition

In: Goettinger Studien Zur Entwicklungsoekonomik / Goettingen Studies in Development Economics Series v.23

Abstract

Cover -- Acronyms -- Preface -- 1. Micro level estimation of income -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Methodology and Data -- 1.2.1 The Basic Methodology -- 1.2.2 The Income Model -- 1.2.3 The Implementation Procedure -- 1.2.4 Data Sources -- 1.3 Results -- 1.3.1 Regression Results -- 1.3.2 Poverty Estimates -- 1.3.3 Poverty and Inequality Maps -- 1.3.4 Pro-poor Growth Evidence -- 1.4 Discussion -- 1.5 Conclusions -- 2. Does Inequality Harm Income Mobility and Growth? -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Data: macro, micro and small area welfare estimates -- 2.3 Small area welfare estimation -- 2.4 The model -- 2.5 Estimation -- 2.6 Results -- 2.7 Discussion -- 2.8 Conclusions -- 3. Characterization of inequality changes through microeconometric decomposition -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Methodology -- 3.3 Income inequality in Paraguay: basic facts and sources of changes -- 3.3.1 Returns to education -- 3.3.2 Gender wage gap -- 3.3.3 Returns to experience -- 3.3.4 Unobservable Factors -- 3.3.5 Hours of work -- 3.3.6 Labour market participation -- 3.3.7 Education -- 3.4 Estimation strategy -- 3.5 Results -- 3.6 Discussion -- 3.7 Conclusions -- A: Annex to Chapter 1 -- B: Annex to Chapter 2 -- Bibliography.