Rising Inequality in Mexico: Household Characteristics and Regional Effects
分析1984至1994年间墨西哥家庭人均收入不平等急剧上升的原因，发现教育回报变化解释了约一半的基尼系数增长，而农村与南部地区相对恶化贡献了另外四分之一。
We use an empirical framework to identify the contributions of microeconomic factors to the sharp rise in household (per capita) income inequality in Mexico between 1984 and 1994. Results indicate that changes in returns to household characteristics, in particular changes in returns to education, are responsible for about half of the increase in the Gini coefficient. The deteriorating conditions in rural areas relative to the urban areas and of the southern region relative to other regions account for another fourth of the increase in the Gini.