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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

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the effects of the Bolsa Família family conditional cash transfer programme (PBF) on beneficiary families' spending on food, fruit, meat and fish, poultry and eggs, green vegetables, cereals and oilseed products, flours and pastas, tuber and root vegetables, s...


Ferrario, Marcela NogueiraThe impacts on family consumption of the Bolsa Família subsidy programme

The Human Development Index (HDI) is an indicator designed to track the development of countries in respect of three dimensions of development: health, education and income. Since it was first published in 1990, great efforts have been made to improve hdi, which, as has been stressed on numerous ...


Salas-Bourgoin, María AndreinaA proposal for a modified Human Development Index

Despite its importance, the literature on wage differentials between public- and private-sectors employees in Latin America is sparse. This article analyses the wage gap between the two sectors in Chile, based on monthly longitudinal data obtained from the Social Protection Survey (EPS) for the p...


Navarro, LucasSelman, GabrielaWage differentials between the public and private sectors in Chile: Evidence from longitudinal data

Evidence suggests that labour markets do not clear as posited by conventional microeconomics. The enduring inter-industry wage differentials (IIWD) and employer-size wage differentials (ESWD) present a challenge. Data from the Jamaican private sector reveal that eswd could be the impetus for IIWD...


Mounsey, AllisterJamaica: Employer size and worker remuneration in the private sector

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