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Keywords
income distribution
Gini
Mehran and Piesch index decomposition
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Abstract
Using micro data from the National Household Income and Expenditure Survey, the methodology of decomposition of the Gini index of inequality, Mehran and Piesch shows that public programs (“Oportunidades”) have contributed with 11.15% of the reduction in the observed inequality (Gini index) in Mexico between 2000 and 2012. e remittances received by households have contributed with 9.02% of the reduction of inequality. Mehran index shows that remittances contributed with 17.25% to the fall of the level of inequality.
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