. Our paper uses national data from Brazil between 2002 and 2013 to examine retrospectively how it has performed on some of …

the main determinant of the general level of the wage inequality observed in Brazil. The international comparison allows … country in relation to the industrialized world. The process of economic development occurred in Brazil in the last decades … expansion in Brazil occurred during the period of our "economic miracle", it was systematically associated to a slow process of …

inequality in Brazil. The arguments are organized as follows. After an introductory section, the second one presents the … Brazil. The paper closes with some final remarks on the lessons that can be drawn from the Brazilian experience. …

This paper aims at analyzing the contribution of social policies to declining rates of income inequalities in Brazil … since the 1990s. Based on a framework of historical institutionalism, Brazil is characterised as a traditionally patrimonial …