Chile is the OECD country in which a larger part of its inhabitants consider that government intervention is necessary to reduce inequalities that they perceive as too great, a perception that is in line with the real fracture of resources.
In a report on the perception of inequalities, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) considers that demand for a greater redistribution consistent with the level of inequality experienced by Chileans, the second highest of all the Member States, only behind Costa Rica.
Chileans are also among those who most want a more progressive taxation, that is, higher tax rates for the richest, and the study authors consider this to be consistent with the situation there.
They remember that Chile is characterized by “a high level of income inequality“But also with a”relatively high level of income persistence across generations ”, which indicates “Low social mobility”.
In the case of persistent inequalities between generations, Colombia takes the cake of all members of the organization.
In line with the great inequality of opportunities indicated by the statistics, Chileans have a strong perception of this phenomenon and when asked they confirm the feeling that the children of poor families will continue to be poor once they are adults.
The authors of the report point out that globally in the last 30 years the OECD concern about social disparities as economic inequalities increased.
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