TY - BOOK AU - Hammill, Matthew TI - Income inequality in Central America, Dominican Republic and Mexico: assessing the importance of individual and household characteristics T2 - Serie estudios y perspectivas PY - 2005/// CY - México, D.F. PB - Cepal KW - Ingresos de hogares KW - Distribución del ingreso KW - Desigualdad económica KW - América Central KW - República Dominicana KW - México N1 - Abstract, 7 --; Introduction, 9 --; I. Theoretical and empirical review of factors that contribute to income inequality, 13 --; II. A methodology for the analysis of the entire distribution: simulations of counterfactual distributions, 21 --; III. Overview of Central America, Dominican Republic and Mexico, 25 --; IV. Theil decomposition of the level of income inequality, 45 --; V. Decomposition of changes in individual and household income inequality: results from the DFL methodology, 51 --; VI. Conclusion, 61 --; Bibliography, 63 --; Appendix, 69 --; Serie estudios y perspetivas, issues published, 85 ER -