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Poverty, inequality and macroeconomic instability

Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Corseuil, Carlos Henrique; … - 2015

macroeconomic performance is closely related to poverty and inequality, very few quantitative estimates are available in Brazil and … series to access the relation between this weak and unstable macroeconomic performance on poverty and inequality. The … particularly with poverty. However, since the variation in the monthly inflation rate over the past seventeen years has been very …

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Minimum wage, income distribution, and poverty in Brazil

Ramos, Lauro R. A.; Reis, Jose Guilherme Almeida dos - 2015

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The Brazilian state's redistributive role : changes and persistence at the beginning of the 21st century

Silveira, Fernando Gaiger da; Palomo, Theo Ribas - 2023

This paper examines the evolution of the redistributive role of the State in Brazil at the beginning of the 21st century. For this purpose, we compute the marginal effects of the cash transfers, taxes, and in-kind benefits on inequality using the Lerman-Yitzhaki progressivity index. Our main...

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The state and income inequality in Brazil

Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Souza, Pedro H. G. F. de - 2015

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary income flows to and from the Brazilian State. The income flows from the State include public servants' earnings, Social Security pensions, unemployment benefits and Social Assistance...

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"Robin Hood in reverse" : persistence and barriers to redistributive fiscal policy

Cavalcante, Pedro - 2021

Despite improvements in the living conditions of the population, there has not been a significant change in income disparities. Since the growth of left-wing parties and political competition as per the median voter hypothesis do not stand in the Brazilian case, what could explain the tenacity...

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Commute time in Brazil (1992-2009) : differences between metropolitan areas, by income levels and gender

Pereira, Rafael Henrique Moraes; Schwanen, Tim - 2015

This study analyzes trends in average commute times in Brazil between 1992 and 2009. It distinguishes between the nine largest metropolitan areas plus the Federal District of Brasília and describes how differences among these areas vary according to income levels and gender. This paper is based...

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Inequality in Brazil from 2016 to 2017 : a decomposition exercise and labor market analysis of virtually no change (which is good news)

Soares, Sergei - 2018

This article uses recently released data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua), Brazilian household survey to calculate changes in inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient from 2016 to 2017. A Shorrocks decomposition by factor components is also...

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Distributive impacts of social security financing in Brazil

Soares, Sergei; Bloch, Carolina - 2019

This paper seeks to estimate the distributive impact of the taxes and other fiscal contributions that finance social security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing, we compute a measure of incidence that aggregates...

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Financial development, growth and equity in Brazil

Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis - 2015

Financial markets help to foster growth and productivity through their role in mobilizing savings to finance investment and production, selecting and monitoring investment projects, diversifying risks, and allowing investment and production to be carried out in the most productive scale and time...

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Distributional effects of optimal commodity taxes combined with minimum income programs in Brazil

Barbosa, Ana Luiza Neves de Holanda; Fiuza, Eduardo P. S.; … - 2015

Commodity taxes play an important role in Brazil and raise around 60% of the total tax revenue. This heavy reliance renders commodity taxation one of the main tools available to the government for collecting revenue and securing redistribution. In fact, Brazilian income inequity is one of the...

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