Extent: | 1 online resource (308 pages) |
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Type of publication: | Book / Working Paper |
Language: | English |
Notes: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. ""TABLE OF CONTENTS""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Abbreviations and Acronyms""; ""Executive Summary""; ""PART I: Policy Report""; ""Introduction""; ""1. Why Do Inequalities Matter for Brazil?""; ""2. Why is Brazil Such an Unequal Society?""; ""Inequality in Brazil""; ""The Causes of Inequality""; ""Public Policy and Equity""; ""3. What Can and Should Public Policy Do About Inequality in Brazil?""; ""Human Assets and Land: Endowments and Prices""; ""Public Social Expenditure and Taxation""; ""4. Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography""; ""PART II: Background Papers"" ""5. Poverty and Inequality in Brazil: New Estimates from Combined PPV-PNAD Data""""Data""; ""Methodology""; ""Implementation""; ""Poverty and Inequality at the Regional Level""; ""Poverty and Inequality at Lower Levels of Disaggregation""; ""Inequality Decompositions""; ""Conclusions""; ""References""; ""6. Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: Accounting for Differences in Household Income Distributions across Countries""; ""Introduction""; ""Income Distribution in Brazil,Mexico,and the United States""; ""A General Statement of Statistical Decomposition Analysis"" ""The Decompositions in Practice: A Specific Model""""The Brazil-United States Comparison""; ""The Brazil-Mexico Comparison""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""References""; ""7. Inequality of Outcomes, Inequality of Opportunities, and Intergenerational Education Mobility in Brazil""; ""Introduction""; ""Theoretical Background""; ""Opportunities and the Distribution of Individual Wages""; ""Simulating the Effects of the Inequality of Opportunities on Earnings""; ""The Effects of the Inequality of Opportunities on the Distribution of Household Income""; ""Summary and Conclusion"" ""References""""8. Indirect Taxation Reform: Searching for Dalton-Improvements in Brazil""; ""Introduction""; ""Taxation in Brazil: Recent Evolution,Trends and Issues""; ""What is the Impact of Taxation on the Distribution of Secondary Income?""; ""Dalton Improving Tax Reforms: Analytical Framework""; ""Identifying Potential Candidates for Raising and Reducing Taxes""; ""The Pairs of Tax Changes that Satisfy the Dalton Improvement Condition""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""References"" ""9. Schooling Expansion in Demographic Transition: A Transient Opportunity for Inequality Reduction in Brazil""""Introduction""; ""Demographic Background""; ""Methodology and Data""; ""The Evolution of Education Between Cohorts: Monotonically Increasing Mean, Decreasing Inequality and Inverted U-Shaped Mean-V""; ""The Increasing Stock �to-Cohort Time Lag of Educational Attainment""; ""Simulations: Permanent and Temporary Acceleration of Educational Attainment""; ""Conclusions""; ""Appendix""; ""Bibliography"" ""10. Ex-ante Evaluation of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs:The Case of Bolsa Escola"" |
ISBN: | 978-1-280-04188-4 ; 978-0-8213-5880-1 |
Source: | ECONIS - Online Catalogue of the ZBW |
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