Education and income distribution in urban Brazil, 1976-1996
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11651307 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Francisco H G Ferreira (0000-0001-8926-0500), Ricardo Paes De Barros (0000-0003-0140-1570) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 2000 |
| Issue | 71 |
| Pages | 41-61 |
| Publication date | 2000-09-30 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | CEPAL review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0251-2920 • E-ISSN: 1684-0348 |
| Publisher | United Nations Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.18356/e434f6eb-en |
| OpenAlex | W580021803 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 5 |
Despite tremendous macroeconomic instability, Brazil’s urban income distributions in 1976 and 1996 appear, at first glance, deceptively similar. Mean household income per capita was stagnant, with a minute accumulated growth of 4.3% over the two decades. The Gini coefficient hovered just above 0.59 in both years, and the incidence of poverty (with respect to a poverty line of R$60/month at 1996 prices) was effectively unchanged at 22%. Yet, behind this apparent stability, a powerful combination of labour market, demographic and educational dynamics were at work, one effect of which was to generate a substantial increase in extreme urban poverty. Using a micro-simulation-based decomposition methodology which endogenizes labour incomes, individual occupational choices and education decisions, we show that the distribution of incomes was being affected, on the one hand, by a decline in average returns to both education and experience and by impoverishing changes in the structure of occupations and labour force participation (all of which tended to increase poverty), and on the other hand by an increase in educational endowments across the distribution and a progressive reduction in dependency ratios (both of which tended to reduce poverty)
Demographic economics · Dependency ratio · Distribution (mathematics · Economic growth · Economic inequality · Economics · Extreme poverty · Gini coefficient · Income distribution · Inequality · Labour economics · Per capita · Per capita income · Population · Poverty · Sociology · Demography · Economic Theory and Policy · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics
| Citations per year | 0.16 |
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| Citation span | 2007 - 2010 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |