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Education or Inflation? The Roles of Structural Factors and Macroeconomic Instability in Explaining Brazilian Inequality in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2008
This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772658
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Income Distribution in Brazil 1981-1990 : Parametric and Non-Parametric Approaches
Cowell, Frank - 2008
Using a newly available comprehensive micro-data set we examine changes in the shape of the Brazilian income distribution during the quot;lost decadequot; of the 1980s. We adopt alternative parametric and non-parametric approaches to modelling the distribution. We show that inequality changed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012772675
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Growing Apart : Inequality and Poverty Trends in Brazil in the 1980s
Ferreira, Francisco H. G. - 2014
This paper analyses the evolution of inequality and poverty in Brazil during the 1980s, using a large repeated cross …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012751616