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Endogenous Entry, International Business Cycles, and Welfare
Auray, Stéphane; Eyquem, Aurélien - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011
This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...
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O Sacrifício Equitativo na Tributação Brasileira
Pintos-Payeras, José Adrian; Hoffmann, Rodolfo - In: Economia 10 (2009) 4, pp. 765-788
Funções de tributação não-lineares pressupondo obediência ao princípio de sacrifício equitativo são estimadas pelo método de mínimos quadrados ponderados, utilizando dados da Pesquisa de Orçamentos Familiares (POF) de 2002-2003. Os resultados sugerem que o coeficiente de aversão à...
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A closer look at financial development and income distribution
Gimet, Céline; Lagoarde-Segot, Thomas - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2011
inequality, the time-varying nature of the relationship, and reciprocal causality. We construct a set of annual indicators of … addition, the banking sector seems to exert a stronger impact on inequality. Finally, the relationship appears to depend on …
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A estabilidade da desigualdade no Brasil entre 2006 e 2012: Resultados adicionais
Medeiros, Marcelo C.; de Souza, Pedro H. G. F. - 2016
We examine how inequality measures, data sources, income brackets, ranking variables of tabulated tax data …, underestimation of incomes in the bottom of the distribution and the methodology used to correct inequality affects the trends of … inequality in total income among adults in Brazil between 2006 and 2012. The existing evidence corroborates the hypothesis that …
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Peso regionais na função de bem-estar social: Uma aplicação para o Fundo de Participação dos Estados (FPE)
Vieira, Roberta da Silva; Monasterio, Leonardo M. - 2011
coefficient of inequality aversion. When 'e' equals 1.43, the regional weights ranged from 0.44 for Santa Catarina to 2.55 for …
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A redução das disparidades regionais e a queda da desigualdade nacional de renda (1981-2009)
Guimarães, Pedro Herculano; de Souza, Ferreira; … - 2011
of the country, examining its main reasons and highlighting its importance to the overall decline in income inequality … decrease in inequality between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas accounted for 51% of the total decrease in income … inequality; between 1995 and 2009, 20%. Had this convergence not occurred, per capita income inequality in 2009 would be 10 …
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Uma investigação sobre a desigualdade na distribuição de renda e o endividamento dos trabalhadores Norte-Americanos dos anos 1980 aos anos 2000
Teixeira, Lucas Azeredo da Silva - 2012
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the origins of a critical process in the North American economy before the subprime crisis, namely, the increasing debt of households. It is argued that causes of this indebtedness are alterations in income distribution (an increased concentration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330587
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Aspectos distributivos do regime de previdência dos servidores públicos
Rangel, Leonardo Alves - 2011
This paper deals with the distributional aspects of Brazilian Civil Servant Pension System. It analyzes, in a counter factual way, the potential implications after the constitution of supplemental retirement pension fund for civil servants, at the light of what is predicted in the 41st...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330682
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Metrópoles e suas periferias: Breve análise empírica como diagnóstico
Furtado, Bernardo Alves - 2011
This paper details the characterization of metropolis capitals and their peripheral municipalities using recent data made available by Brazilian Statistical Foundation (IBGE). The text also investigates the distribution of revenue among municipalities and their financial availability to provide...
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Gasto público, tributos e desigualdade de renda no Brasil
Medeiros, Marcelo; Souza, Pedro - 2013
Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary … the State contributes directly and to a large share of inequality. Factors associated to work in the public sector - wages … progressive. Redistributive mechanisms that could revert this inequality, such as taxes and social assistance, are very …
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