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. Our paper uses national data from Brazil between 2002 and 2013 to examine retrospectively how it has performed on some of …
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The paper describes inequality trends in selected emerging economies (Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, China, India …
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upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of … of GDP ranges from 17 percent in Brazil to 5.2 percent in Peru. Second, social spending does not accrue to the richest …
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upper quintile. Through an in-depth fiscal incidence analysis applied to Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico and Peru we … Argentina but by only 2.4 percent in Bolivia. In Argentina, Brazil and Bolivia government revenues are close to 40 percent of … of GDP ranges from 17 percent in Brazil to 5.2 percent in Peru. Second, social spending does not accrue to the richest …
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low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and … skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … prevalent in the cities of southern Brazil than in northern cities. This segregation, which can decline with specialization and …
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This paper advances in the literature on the migration of college students, which is not very large in Brazil … undergraduate courses in Brazil may provide a new instrument of regional development. In this sense, if this process happens in less …
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European countries have the world's most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality, that...
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We analyse horizontal inequality in wealth and in years of education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the period 2001-13. We find that the trend in horizontal inequality is similar to the trend in vertical inequality over the period of analysis. In addition, horizontal inequality in...
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We analyse horizontal inequality in wealth and in years of education in the Democratic Republic of the Congo over the period 2001-13. We find that the trend in horizontal inequality is similar to the trend in vertical inequality over the period of analysis. In addition, horizontal inequality in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011672041
European countries have the world’s most redistributive tax and transfer systems. While they have been well equipped to deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their performance in dealing with horizontal inequality,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011958521