Empty Box Syndrome (González & Martner)

Overcoming the “empty box syndrome”. Determinants of income distribution in Latin America by Ivonne González and Ricardo Martner published by CEPAL Review (12/2012). “Latin America´s persistent inequality seen to reflect the lack of specific policies to reduce income disparities. The present study uses econometric tecniques to estimate the determinants of the income distribution in the region, in a context in which economic growth seems to coexist with the reduction of inequalities – thereby overcoming the ‘empty box syndrome’ that characterized the region in the 1980s and 1990s…”