Autor/es
Descripción
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Colaborador
Salvia, Agustín
Spatial Coverage
Temporal Coverage
1995-2018
Idioma
spa
Extent
159 p.
Derechos
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Atribución-NoComercial-SinDerivadas 2.0 Genérica (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0)
Formato
application/pdf
Identificador
Cobertura
ARG
1995-2018
Abstract
The goal of this research is to analyze the behaviour of income inequality in Argentina during the last three decades. This period is characterized by the succession of contrasting labour and economic policies. The main effort is examining changes and continuities of income inequality in urban Argentina through it’s relationship to the salient features of the occupational structure. Current literature on the subject of income inequality has shown that the beginning of the 21st century constitutes a novelty for Latin America. After a substantial increase of inequity during the nineties, concurrent to programs of trade and economic liberalization, the first years of the new century partially reversed these trends in the region. The argentine case allows to analyze this process with a priviledged lens. The country traversed successive changes, related to distinct repertoires of economic policy, and simultaneously reproduced relevant socioeconomic and occupational disparities, closely linked to it’s productive structure. For these reasons, the study presents questions related to: a) the organization of the occupational structure during phases under scrutiny, specifically changes and continuities; b) the main features of access to standard employment relationships according the occupational location of households and the general impact of each phase; c) structural economic factors and household characteristics that concurrently influence opportunities of integration to labour institutions; and d) the distributional effects of variations in the relationships between quality employment and household income, for different occupational categories of the social structure.
The central thesis of the writing is that access to employment positions is conditioned by the persistent structural heterogeneity of the argentine productive system. Through this phenomenon, opportunities to acces labour protection are segmented and durable economic inequalities constituted. In spite of relevant changes to economic programs, labour institutions and social policies implemented by the state, this writing poses that income inequality in Argentina is mostly linked to the long-term reproduction of technological and organizational asymmetries expressed by structural heterogeneity. The improvement or deterioration of economic inequality during different phases has to be understood as limited movements that increase or decrease disparities and durable obstacles to reach a convergence of regulatory and earning conditions among the labour force.
The source of empirical information used in this analysis is the Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH), a survey regularly carried out by the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INDEC). The micro-data of the EPH survey are the best suited to the goals of this study. To this end, databases corresponding to the main 28 urban aglomerations of Argentina were processed since 1995. With this information, empirical results pertaining to the social structure of households, the changes and continuities in differential access to quality employment, the chief characteristics of labour income distribution in different pahses of the period under scrutiny and the underlying mechanisms to it’s changes are offered. This is performed through the calculus, decomposition and analysis of Theil’s Generalized Entropy Index for all years examined.
The central thesis of the writing is that access to employment positions is conditioned by the persistent structural heterogeneity of the argentine productive system. Through this phenomenon, opportunities to acces labour protection are segmented and durable economic inequalities constituted. In spite of relevant changes to economic programs, labour institutions and social policies implemented by the state, this writing poses that income inequality in Argentina is mostly linked to the long-term reproduction of technological and organizational asymmetries expressed by structural heterogeneity. The improvement or deterioration of economic inequality during different phases has to be understood as limited movements that increase or decrease disparities and durable obstacles to reach a convergence of regulatory and earning conditions among the labour force.
The source of empirical information used in this analysis is the Encuesta Permanente de Hogares (EPH), a survey regularly carried out by the Instituto Nacional de Estadísticas y Censos (INDEC). The micro-data of the EPH survey are the best suited to the goals of this study. To this end, databases corresponding to the main 28 urban aglomerations of Argentina were processed since 1995. With this information, empirical results pertaining to the social structure of households, the changes and continuities in differential access to quality employment, the chief characteristics of labour income distribution in different pahses of the period under scrutiny and the underlying mechanisms to it’s changes are offered. This is performed through the calculus, decomposition and analysis of Theil’s Generalized Entropy Index for all years examined.
Título obtenido
Magíster de la Universidad de Buenos Aires en Investigación en Ciencias Sociales
Institución otorgante
Universidad de Buenos Aires. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales