Brazil has made remarkable progress in reducing poverty and inequality. This reduction is explained by strong growth but also by effective social policies. Besides growth, public services and cash transfers have played the biggest role, the latter notably through the successful “Bolsa...

This paper develops a model which allows us to analyze the effect of policies that influence income distribution between capitalists and workers (such as taxes and market imperfections) on the log-run growth path of an economy. More specifically, we present a heterogeneous agent model where some...

What do labor income dynamics look like over the life-cycle? What is the relative importance of persistent shocks, transitory shocks and heterogeneous profiles? To what extent do taxes, transfers and the family attenuate these various factors in the evolution of life-cycle inequality? In this...