Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina

This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent Household Su...

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Autores principales:	Gasparini, Leonardo, Sosa Escudero, Walter
Formato:	Articulo Documento de trabajo
Lenguaje:	Inglés
Publicado:	2000
Materias:	Ciencias Económicas bienestar social Argentina JEL: D3; D6; C4 crecimiento económico ingreso income distribution; inequality; welfare; Latin America
Acceso en línea:	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3507 http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/doctrab/doc21.pdf
Aporte de:	SEDICI (UNLP) de Universidad Nacional de La Plata

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topic	Ciencias Económicas bienestar social Argentina JEL: D3; D6; C4 crecimiento económico ingreso income distribution; inequality; welfare; Latin America
spellingShingle	Ciencias Económicas bienestar social Argentina JEL: D3; D6; C4 crecimiento económico ingreso income distribution; inequality; welfare; Latin America Gasparini, Leonardo Sosa Escudero, Walter Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
topic_facet	Ciencias Económicas bienestar social Argentina JEL: D3; D6; C4 crecimiento económico ingreso income distribution; inequality; welfare; Latin America
description	This paper has two main goals. The first is to complement the Argentine mean income series with inequality estimates in order to obtain aggregate welfare series. Average income figures are estimated from National Accounts while income inequality indices are calculated from the Permanent Household Survey (EPH). Household income from the survey is adjusted for nonresponse, underreporting and demographics. The second objective of the article is to check the statistical significance of changes in inequality and welfare measures. Bootstrapping techniques are used to that aim. One of the main conclusions is that while welfare assessments coincide among different value judgments in some periods (e.g. 1991-1994), they widely vary in some others, particularly in the last four years (1994-1998), where the economy experienced moderate growth and large increases in inequality. It is argued that the period 1994-1998 provides an unprecedented laboratory for distinguishing the social preferences of different analysts according to their evaluation of the performance of the Argentine economy.
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author	Gasparini, Leonardo Sosa Escudero, Walter
author_facet	Gasparini, Leonardo Sosa Escudero, Walter
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title	Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
title_short	Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
title_full	Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
title_fullStr	Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
title_full_unstemmed	Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina
title_sort	assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in argentina
publishDate	2000
url	http://sedici.unlp.edu.ar/handle/10915/3507 http://www.depeco.econo.unlp.edu.ar/doctrab/doc21.pdf
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Assessing aggregate welfare: growth and inequality in Argentina

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