This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …. While the static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household … head, as well as geographic location, can account for a substantial proportion of inequality levels, a dynamic …

modelling the distribution. We show that inequality changed dramatically during the decade, along with modest changes in average …

inequality of opportunity, as well as to greater output. This provides an additional rationale for an active role for the …

This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …-section household survey data set. We calculate standard scalar measures of inequality and poverty, together with decile means and … performed to infer population dominance, generating robust welfare and inequality comparisons. Analogously, mixed stochastic …