DT 05/20 - Distributing the missing third: growth and falling inequality in Uruguay 2009-2016

We are grateful to the inequality research group of Instituto de Economía-UdelaR, for their inputs and contributions. We would like to especially thank Andrea Vigorito for her insights and suggestions throughout the whole process of writing this article; also to Martín Leites and Luciana Méndez, coordinators of the group, and to the participants of the seminar in which we presented this article. We are also very grateful to the World Inequality Lab's team for their continuous help and invaluable comments on different stages of this process: in particular, we would like to thank Facundo Alvaredo, Ignacio Flores and Marc Morgan. We are also grateful to the participants of the the session on “DINA in developing countries” of the First WIL Conference in December 2017, and the participant of the session “Income Distribution” of the IX Conference of the Network of Inequality and Poverty (Uruguayan session, November 2017), who commented early versions of this paper. We thank Nora Lustig, with whom we discussed in depth many of the key aspects of this effort. Finally, we thank Gustavo González, former coordinator of Asesoría Económica at Dirección General Impositiva, and to his staff, Fernando Peláez and Sol Mascarenhas, for the invaluable help and comments received during this research. All errors remain our own.