RICOS? POBRES? UMA ANÁLISE DA POLARIZAÇÃO DA RENDA PARA O CASO BRASILEIRO

This article analyzes the income polarization in Brazil for 1981 and 2003. After we explain the differences between polarization and inequality, we calculate the income polarization for Brazil, based on the work of Esteban, Gradin e Ray (1999). The results indicate that the bipolarization remains stable in the period, following the trend of the Gini coefficient in the employed measures of income: per capita household income and household income adjusted for equivalent scales. However, the level of polarization is high in Brazil, if contrasted to other countries. The key determinant of this fact is the huge difference in average income of the considered groups.

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Year of publication:	2005
Authors:	Castro, Sueli Aparecida Correa e ; Scorzafave, Luiz Guilherme
Institutions:	Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em Economia - ANPEC

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Series:	Anais do XXXIII Encontro Nacional de Economia [Proceedings of the 33th Brazilian Economics Meeting].
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Language:	Portuguese
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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