), 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 undertaken, as well as a limited analysis of the wage inequality and the labor market … contribution to household inequality. The main results are: i) the Gini coefficient fell 0.18 point from 2016 to 2017, going from …

The following study uses two approaches to judge whether inequality in Brazil is falling fast enough. The first is to … for how long Brazil must keep up the fall in the Gini coefficient to attain the same levels of inequality of three OECD … various benchmarks in inequality are: six years to Mexico, twelve to the United States and 24 to Canadian inequality levels …