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This article analyses the trend of unfair inequality in Brazil (1995-2009) using a nonparametric approach to estimate the income function. The entropy metrics introduced by Li, Maasoumi and Racine (2009) are used to quantify income differences separately for each effort variable. A Gini coefficie...


Annegues, Ana ClaudiaFigueiredo, Erik Alencar deSouza, Wallace Patrick Santos de FariasDeterminants of unfair inequality in Brazil, 1995 and 2009

This paper provides empirical evidence to assess the impact of socioeconomic and political variables on different measures of income inequality based on the 27 units of the Brazilian federation in the period from 1999 to 2008. The Brazilian experience is a good example for understanding the incom...


Ferreira de Mendonça, HelderMartins Esteves, DiogoIncome inequality in Brazil: What has changed in recent years?

After reviewing the debate over the relative merits of universalism and targeting in social policy, this paper assesses the present state of and challenges to social protection systems in Latin America. It shows that these systems expanded broadly but unevenly across the region during the decade ...


Ocampo, José AntonioGómez-Arteaga, NatalieSocial protection systems, redistribution and growth in Latin America

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