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In this article, we analyze the role of work and study activities in the daily lives of young people aged 18 to 24, who live in low-income families in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The dream of continuing to study or resuming the trajectory of studies is present as a central element in the...
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-coefficients were used for measuring earnings inequality. Relative changes in earnings inequality for sickness benefits were explained …
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premium levels and changes within countries. For the literature on income inequality, these findings imply the need to pay …
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The seemingly upward trend in opting out from public services and the segregation of income groups in public and private education and health systems has raised concerns about the future of an already fragmented social contract in Latin America. In this chapter, we examine the evolution of the...
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …
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This article provides an analysis of the propriety and opportunity of a macrosectoral analysis of Brazilian social security, in order to favor the understanding of the performance and challenges that cross each of its sectoral policies and contribute to the reflection on the common logic that...
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review of studies and research on the relationship among between inequality and mortality, morbidity, disability and …
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The standard poverty lines applied in empirical research tend to be problematic in terms of validity, reliability, ease … related to actual differences in the 'production of poverty' in 11 countries, as measured by the generalised budget approach … substantially higher degree of poverty than representatives of the corporatist type (Belgium, Germany, France). Poverty in the …
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social inequality. In this study, I used data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS) to describe trends in educational … amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by …
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