Souza, Marcelo Medeiros Coelho de; Galvão, Juliana Castro - 2015
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 …% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass …