This study deals with the impacts of structural changes on income distribution in Brazil in the period 1992-2002. A Pure Leontief Model and a Leontief-Miazawa Model were utilized to portray the structure of the economy in both years, and to perform counterfactual simulations on some important...

Tertiary activities are becoming more and more important all over the world, as their share in total income increases with the level of economic conditions within countries, as Figure 1 exhibits. A comparison with other countries in the same range of GDP per capita values indicates that Brazil...

The objective of the paper is to provide an estimative of the impacts that changes in international prices of agricultural commodities will have on income distribution and poverty in Brazil. To do so, a Social Accounting Matrix is constructed and applied, using a Leontief-Miyazawa model...

The paper deals with regional income inequalities in Brazil, incorporating the personal distribution of income within regions. A series of inequality indicators is presented and computed for four different census years, allowing for the analysis of the trends in regional inequalities in Brazil....

Industry is traditionally highly concentrated in Brazil, but a trend toward deconcentration was in progress from 1970 on. Recent data shows that important changes have occurred, with a reversal in the previous trend. In this paper a measure of competitiveness for different regions is presented,...

The paper presents an analysis of regional income inequalities in Brazil for the period 1939-1990, based on a data set arranged by the author. Traditional measures of inequality, such as the dispersion of per capita income, are presented together with other measures commonly used in the New...