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urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results … finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the …
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urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results … finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the … last decade. -- urban wage premium ; wage inequality ; Brazil …
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Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic Census of Brazil. Such equations allow us to evaluate the effect of age, gender, schooling, color (race), position in the occupation, weekly working time and other factors on...
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inequality and income poverty in Brazil. We use data from three censuses and 35 national household surveys (PNAD). The … reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … inequality and poverty. The growth required to have made that possible would have been impressive. Such a reduction could also …
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inequality and income poverty in Brazil. We use data from three censuses and 35 national household surveys (PNAD). The … reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … inequality and poverty. The growth required to have made that possible would have been impressive. Such a reduction could also …
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project that would overcome the rural-urban dichotomy. Their socioeconomic conditions showed improvement in poverty indicators …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …-off. Finally, we show that in the past few years poverty rates were much more sensitive to changes in inequality than in average …
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In this article, we analyze the role of work and study activities in the daily lives of young people aged 18 to 24, who live in low-income families in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The dream of continuing to study or resuming the trajectory of studies is present as a central element in the...
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trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … the models that are strongly progressive (the targeted and the hybrid models) are more efficient to reduce poverty and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …
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. 287/2016) on poverty and inequality has been largely impressionistic to date. The present study tries to bridge this gap … the comparison of poverty and inequality indicators observed in 2015 with estimates for the full implementation of two …-the-minimum-wage poverty line) from the current 9.4 per cent to 11.1 per cent. Inequality would increase marginally. The Legislative version …
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