facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s …, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector. Higher-order moments of … the distribution of earnings changes show cyclical movements in Brazil that are similar to those in developed countries …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual …

1980's and 1990's, Brazil and Colombia, we examine the response of the informal sector to liberalization. In Brazil, we …

data from Brazil, we track the earnings and employment of campaign workers before and after close elections spanning nearly …

The conventional wisdom that Africa is not reducing poverty is wrong. Using the methodology of Pinkovskiy and Sala …-i-Martin (2009), we estimate income distributions, poverty rates, and inequality and welfare indices for African countries for the … period 1970-2006. We show that: (1) African poverty is falling and is falling rapidly; (2) if present trends continue, the …

-receiving states and metropolitan areas. Then I quantify the consequences of these wage effects on the poverty rates of native families … "poor" families among U.S.-born individuals. I consider the decade 2000-2009 during which poverty rates increased … no effect of immigration on native poverty at the national level. At the local level, only considering the most extreme …