Title
Factorial, personal, and wealth inequality in Peru, 1950-2016
Other title
Desigualdad factorial, personal y de la riqueza en Perú, 1950-2016
Date Issued
01 January 2019
Access level
open access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico
Abstract
Distribution of factorial income, personal income, and wealth in Peru is highly inequitable. In the 1960s, wage share was higher than at international average. It improved from the 1990s onwards, but without reaching previous levels. The corrected Gini personal income coefficient exceeded the official trend. The levels of inequality in productive wealth and assets distribution were higher than those of personal income distribution, in accordance with the international literature on the subject. A proxy of wealth distribution was elaborated, one which factored in both natural persons’ and businesses’ bank deposits in the national financial system. Some of the results are then compared with those of other Latin American economies.
Start page
31
End page
58
Volume
50
Issue
197
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Demografía
Economía
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85066115434
Source
Problemas del Desarrollo
ISSN of the container
03017036
Sources of information:
Directorio de Producción Científica
Scopus