facts on earnings inequality and dynamics in a developing country with a large informal sector: Brazil. Since the mid-1990s …, both inequality and volatility of earnings have declined significantly in Brazil's formal sector. Higher-order moments of … the distribution of earnings changes show cyclical movements in Brazil that are similar to those in developed countries …

disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites … allocative costs of race-based preferences may be relatively large in Brazil …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual …

We show that a rise in the minimum wage accounts for a large decline in earnings inequality in Brazil since 1994. To … one-third of the 25.9 log point fall in the variance of log earnings in Brazil since 1994. At the same time, the minimum …

Using linked employer-employee data from Brazil, we document a large gender pay gap due to women working at lower …

linked employer-employee data for Brazil, we show that much of overall wage inequality arises within sector-occupations and …