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- Title
ECONOMÍA, POLÍTICA Y CULTURA DE LA DESIGUALDAD DE INGRESOS EN CHILE.
- Authors
Raúl González M.
- Abstract
This paper explore the causes of the income inequality in Chile, looking to extend the existing factors panorama emphasizing some ignored currently — at least in Chile — both by ideological bias or their politics significance more criticals of the status quo. In a first section is suggested the magnitude and nature of the income inequality in Chile. After from the section 2 to 8 identifies a set of factors and their presence for the Chilean case. It is referring, in sequential way, to the questions of the patrimonial and the wealth concentration; to the productivity profits distribution and the production factors payments; to the human capital possession; to the structure and employment heterogeneity; to the family structures and their dependence rates; to the tax structure and the social expenditure; to the socio-cultural discriminations; and the agent power market and the rules establishing that frame their functioning. Finally, is concluded that there are multiple factors that take part in reproducing inequality. Regarding with the paper emphasize, there is, first, the strong relationship among patrimonial or wealth concentration with income distribution; second, the path that follow the output and productivity increases distribution among profits and payments and their relationships with the negotiation conditions; and, finally, is taken once again the Latin- American structuralist classic analysis of the effects that the differents productive structure and employment heterogeneities about income differentials.
- Subjects
CHILE; EQUALITY; INCOME inequality; INCOME redistribution; LABOR supply; LABOR economics; DISPOSABLE income; HUMAN capital; WORK sharing
- Publication
Economía del Caribe, 2008, Issue 1, p184
- ISSN
2011-2106
- Publication type
Article