This paper investigates the impact of parental education on the earnings returns to schooling and the consequences of this effect for income inequality in Brazil. The empirical analysis uses data from the 1996 Brazilian Household Survey (PNAD). According to the estimated results, each additional...

Este artigo analisa o impacto da educação dos pais sobre os retornos à escolaridade dos trabalhadores e as consequências desse efeito para a desigualdade de rendimentos no Brasil. Utilizando dados da Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) de 1996, os resultados mostram que cada...

This paper seeks to provide a continuous measure to represent the distance between skills acquired in tertiary education and those required in an individual’s occupation. This distance measure, which is computed by combining data from the 2010 Brazilian census with information from the 2010...