"On the Intergenerational Transmission of Inequality in Life Chances in Latin America: A Cardinal Approach"
Joseph Deutsch and Jacques Silber

The present study is another attempt to analyze intergenerational mobility or more generally inequality in life chances. It takes a cardinal approach to this topic. A distinction will be made between three different concepts.

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"Inequality in Post-Structural Reform Peru: The Role of Market and Policy Forces"
Miguel Jaramillo and Jaime Saavedra

In this paper, we analyze trends in inequality and characterized them, focusing on the post-structural reform period (1997-2006). Next, we identify the immediate factors influencing these trends, and link them to underlying forces associated with the market, and state policies.

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"Income Mobility within a Generation: An Introduction to the State of the Art in Latin America"
Gary S. Fields

Before discussing mobility, it is useful to recount briefly the three other main aspects of income distribution: growth (which tells about changes in the mean), inequality (which tells about dispersion), and poverty (which tells about the bottom end of the distribution).

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