The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …

policy and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the …

studies for Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico suggest two main phenomena underlie this trend: a fall in the premium to skilled …

In the last decades, Brazil experienced a historical decline in its wage inequality level, particularly in the first … role of technological changes. The paper concludes by discussing future trends in wage inequality in Brazil …

wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

Measured by the Gini coefficient, income inequality in Brazil rose from 0.57 in 1981 to 0.63 in 1989, before falling … back to 0.56 in 2004. This latest figure would lower Brazil's world inequality rank from 2nd (in 1989) to 10th (in 2004 …). Poverty incidence also followed an inverted U-curve over the past quarter century, rising from 0.30 in 1981 to 0.33 in 1993 …

explore empirically these issues using household data covering nine episodes from four Latin American countries (Brazil …

This paper explores the link between exports and total factor productivity in Brazilian manufacturing firms over the … significantly, but with stagnant aggregate growth in total factor productivity. The paper first estimates firm-level total factor … productivity under alternative assumptions (exogenous and endogenous law of motion for productivity) following a GMM procedure. In …

This paper attempts to study the impact of Brazilian Development Bank credit on resource misallocation in Brazil, using … improving the allocative efficiency of the earmarked credit system in Brazil …

This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional … consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade …, while skill intensive service sectors have had significant productivity growth. This is the inverse of the traditional …