This study draws on the recent release of complete information about earnings from the National Longitudinal Household Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios Contínua - PNAD Contínua) for 2012-2018, to evaluate the targeting of the Bolsa Família Programme. The results confirm...

In addition to concentrating historical heritage, city centers often concentrate greater accessibility, in terms of urban mobility, as they concentrate urban infrastructure. Repopulating the centers contributes to more compact and sustainable cities. A considerable portion of Brazilian cities...

This paper assesses the extent of educational inequality and inequity in Brazil, using data obtained from the international study PISA 2000 prepared by the OECD. We provide some descriptive indices of inequality, as well as a measure of inequity (understood as inequality of educational...

Given the gap in the literature regarding equity analyses in the water industry, the objective of this paper is to evaluate whether or not income-related equity considerations are embodied in water supply tariffs, in the Portuguese municipalities. Essential minimum quantities of water are...

The aim of the present paper is to provide empirical support for the hypothesis that Brazilians, especially those situated at the top of the social scale, in a great deal, do not recognize the form of the Brazilian income distribution and its high degree of inequality.

Among the problems presented by Brazilian social security, it may be observed that there are distortions in the criteria and requisites of the simple partition system. The present study is an attempt to evaluate retirement and pension contributions to the inequality of the per capita domiciliay...

This article investigates, by means of the model developed for Young (1990), if the direct, indirect and total tributes in Brazil respect the principle of the equal sacrifice. In all the scenes originated in the present analysis, as much the observed indirect tributes how much the total tributes...

This article investigates, by means of the model developed for Young (1990), if the tributes direct, indirect and total in Brazil respect of the equal sacrifice principle. In all the scenes originated in the present analysis, as much the observed indirect tributes how much the total tributes...

This study is part of Brasil 2035 a project whose objective is to provide subsidies to formulate long-term strategies for Brazil through Prospective Scenarios. The present text uses the prospective methodology, in order to present tendencies and uncertainties for public security. The article is...

Ranking infinite utility streams includes many impossibility results, most involving certain Pareto, anonymity, or continuity requirements. We introduce the concept of the future agreement extension, a method that explicitly extends orderings on finite time horizon to an infinite time horizon....