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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
distribution in Brazil. The inquiry tests the mechanism using the case of redistributive fiscal policy and the literature of …
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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 … Brazil. PNAD data is not conceived strictly for transport planning but is the only large-scale survey in Brazil with annual …, such as Brazil, need not follow the same trajectories as in the Global North. It also shows the importance of not focusing …
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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
security in Brazil. Making a certain number of strong hypotheses relative to the fiscal incidence of social security financing … by the states and the Union). Our results indicate that the financing of social security in Brazil is only slightly …
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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 …
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Financial development, growth and equity in Brazil
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar; Bonelli, Régis - 2015
role of financial markets in fostering economic development in Latin America. The analysis discusses: a) Brazil’s recent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012025394
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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 … would be useful as redistribution income instrument among households in Brazil. These results can provide some valuable … contribution in the context of the increasing discussion about minimum income programs in Brazil associated with demographic …
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Size and functional income distribution in Brazil : some puzzles
Clements, Benedict J. - 2015
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Income inequality in education, and children's schooling attainment in Brazil
Barros, Ricardo Paes de; Lam, David - 2015
of Saõ Paulo and Northeast Brazil, using data from the 1982 PNAD. We find mean schooling of 4.75 years in Saõ Paulo, and …
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