Estrutura de Classes, Educação e Queda da Desigualdade de Renda (2002-2011)

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ID7743151
AutoresPedro Herculano G Ferreira De Souza (0000-0002-5271-0165, Institute of Applied Economic Research), Flavio Carvalhaes (0000-0002-3782-1326, Fundação Getulio Vargas), Flavio Alex De Oliveira Carvalhaes (Fundação Getulio Vargas)
Año2014
Volumen57
Número1
Páginas101-128
Fecha de publicación2014-03-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaDados (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-5258 • E-ISSN: 1678-4588
EditorialFapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1590/s0011-52582014000100004
OpenAlexW2011333499
SCIELO_PIDS0011-52582014000100004
IdiomaPT
Citas recibidas14
Referencias citadas20

This paper aims to reconcile the role ascribed to education as a major cause of the recent reduction in inequality in Brazil with a class analysis framework. A series of univariate and multivariate inequality decompositions were carried out, including the between-group/wit hin-group decomposition of the GE(0) index and the regression-based decomposition suggested by Fields (2003). Our results show that a) whereas the class structure composition was relatively stable between 2002 and 2011, the educational composition changed dramatically; b) inequality between classes accounts for a larger fraction of total inequality than inequality between educational groups; and c) when class and education are analyzed simultaneously, the fraction of total inequality explained by education falls abruptly, while the relative share of class inequality remains constant. Thus, educational improvement was apparently much more important for the reduction in inequality than changes in the other dimensions captured by class structure

Political science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Intergenerational and Educational Inequality Studies · Mathematics · Social and Economic Development in India