Spanish Abstract: No obstante la estrecha relación que existe entre la economía, la biología y la psicología desde finales del siglo XIX, –las principales categorías económicas tienen claras connotaciones psicológicas– la llamada “corriente principal” en economía no se ha...

The following study uses two approaches to judge whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to compare the variation of the Gini coefficient in Brazil with what was observed in several countries that today belong to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and...

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....

This article uses recently released data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua), Brazilian household survey to calculate changes in inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient from 2016 to 2017. A Shorrocks decomposition by factor components is also...

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....

Portuguese Abstract: Propõe-se uma metodologia para conciliar as distribuições de rendimentos de todas as fontes dos indivíduos adultos do Censo 2010 e da DIRPF 2010. Aplica-se a metodologia e decompõe-se a desigualdade entre classes, entre regiões e entre grupos formados por atributos das...

Portuguese Abstract: O objetivo deste estudo é analisar a composição da renda das pessoas 10% ricas do Brasil e sua evolução no período 2006 a 2012 a partir de tabulações de dados da Declaração de Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física (DIRPF). Os dados originais foram reorganizados de...

This article uses recently released data from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua (PNAD Contínua), Brazilian household survey to calculate changes in inequality as measured by the Gini coefficient from 2016 to 2017. A Shorrocks decomposition by factor components is also...

Inequality of income distribution in Brazil: the contribution of pensions and of other components of per capita household income - The paper starts with a discussion of methodological problems that arise when measuring whether a component of total income is progressive or regressive, v.g.,...