Rubiao, Rafael M.; Sousa, Liliana D. - 2020
-increasing: without any mitigation measures, inequality would increase by 4 percent. The country’s first line of defense, its existing … unemployment insurance system, reduces the income shock to 5.3 percent. Even so, an additional 8.4 million Brazilians could fall … access to unemployment protection. These household shocks would reduce average per capita income by 7.6 percent, with the …