In the nineties, after more than a decade of data collection, PNAD's basic questionnaire included systematic data collection on migration. Nevertheless, scholars and specially demographers have seldom explored this data source. This paper is part of a major evaluation project of PNAD in the...

This article verifies the impact of both federal transfers to states and income inequality over imigration. The innovation here is the use of aggregate data to verify the impact of public policy over migration. The econometric results suggest a positive effect of federal transfers to states over...