[Capítulo II: Bienestar y distribución del Ingreso] Privatization and Income Distribution in Argentina

[http://www.cgdev.org/events/privatization/EnnisPinto_Argentina_paper.pdf]

Privatization and Income Distribution in Argentina
Huberto M. Ennis (Research Department, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond) and Santiago M. Pinto (Department of Economics, West Virginia University)

November 29, 2002
Abstract
We study the impact that the privatization process in Argentina had on income distribution and the welfare of the poor. We divide our study in three main areas: the consumption effect, the employment effect, and the fiscal effect. We use household survey data to try to identify those changes in the economic organization of Argentina that could be associated to the privatization process. We find that the main effects of the privatization process were on the consumption side of the economy. The paper also provides a collection of stylized facts that document the significant structural reform that the Argentinean economy underwent during
the 1990’s.

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