EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995

This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics, it qu...

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Autores principales:	FERREIRA,FRANCISCO H. G., LITCHFIELD,JULIE A.
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile 2001
Materias:	Brazil Income Distribution Inequality Poverty
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spelling	oai:scielo:S0717-682120010114000052002-01-21EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995FERREIRA,FRANCISCO H. G.LITCHFIELD,JULIE A. Brazil Income Distribution Inequality Poverty This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics, it quantifies the importance of education, race, geographic location and demographic structure of the household as determinants of inequality levels. Decomposing inequality by factor components reveals that almost half of overall inequality is due to the distribution of self-employment incomes. The causes of changes in inequality differ across the two decades. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have been driven by increases in the educational attainment of the population, in a context of highly convex returns, and by high and accelerating inflation. In the 1990s, the fall in inequality was associated with increasing equality between urban and rural areas, declining returns to education, and falling inflation. Poverty dynamics were closely associated with real wage levels.info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessInstituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de ChileCuadernos de economía v.38 n.114 20012001-08-01text/htmlhttp://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0717-68212001011400005en10.4067/S0717-68212001011400005
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description	This paper investigates the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s, as well as the declines in the first half of the 1990s. It also documents the more cyclical trends in poverty during the same period. Using static decompositions of inequality by household characteristics, it quantifies the importance of education, race, geographic location and demographic structure of the household as determinants of inequality levels. Decomposing inequality by factor components reveals that almost half of overall inequality is due to the distribution of self-employment incomes. The causes of changes in inequality differ across the two decades. The rise in inequality in the 1980s appears to have been driven by increases in the educational attainment of the population, in a context of highly convex returns, and by high and accelerating inflation. In the 1990s, the fall in inequality was associated with increasing equality between urban and rural areas, declining returns to education, and falling inflation. Poverty dynamics were closely associated with real wage levels.
author	FERREIRA,FRANCISCO H. G. LITCHFIELD,JULIE A.
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title	EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995
title_short	EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995
title_full	EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995
title_fullStr	EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995
title_full_unstemmed	EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995
title_sort	education or inflation?: the micro and macroeconomics of the brazilian income distribution during 1981-1995
publisher	Instituto de Economía, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
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EDUCATION OR INFLATION?: THE MICRO AND MACROECONOMICS OF THE BRAZILIAN INCOME DISTRIBUTION DURING 1981-1995

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