Astorga Junquera, Pablo2024-10-212024-10-212024Astorga P. Revealing the diversity and complexity behind long-term income inequality in Latin America: 1920-2011. J Econ Hist. 2024 Oct 1. DOI: 10.1017/S00220507240002750022-0507http://hdl.handle.net/10230/68274Data de publicació electrònica: 01-10-2024Includes supplementary materials for the online appendix.This paper analyzes and documents a new long-term income inequality series for Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Venezuela based on dynamic social tables with four occupational groups. This enables the calculation of comparable Overall (four groups) and Labor Ginis (three groups) with their between- and within-group components. The main findings are the absence of a unique inequality pattern over time; country outcomes characterized by trajectory diversity and level divergence during industrialization and by commonality and convergence post-1980; the occurrence of inequality-leveling episodes with different timing and length; and significant changes in trends, but also evidence indicating persistence. The income-inequality dataset is included as supplementary material.application/pdfeng© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Economic History Association. This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.Desigualtat social -- Amèrica Llatinainfo:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022050724000275info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess