Implicit redistribution within Argentina’s social security system: a micro-simulation exercise

Latin American Economic Review

Table 15 Redistributive effects under alternative definitions of pre- and post-SS lifetime labor incomes

	Private sector		Public sector
	Female	Male	Female	Male
(A) Gini coefficients
Total labor costs and contributions^a
Pre-SS	0.5830	0.4280	0.3998	0.3405
Post-SS	0.6001	0.4343	0.4056	0.3400
Net salary and no contributions
Pre-SS	0.5830	0.4280	0.3998	0.3405
Post-SS	0.6018	0.4330	0.4054	0.3366
(B) Reynolds–Smolensky index of effective progression
Total labor costs and contributions^a	−1.6805	−0.6208	−0.5591	0.0579
Net salary and no contributions	−1.8423	−0.4865	−0.5269	0.3925