Bourguignon, Francois; Ferreira, Francisco H.G.; Leite, … - 2008
effects; and endowment effects. Comparing the household income distributions of the USA and Brazil in 1999, we find that most … of Brazil's excess inequality (of 13 Gini points) is accounted for by underlying inequalities in the distributions of … Brazil also make an important contribution (of two to five points). Differences in occupational structure and in racial and …