We decompose changes of the Gini coefficient to investigate whether the Conditional Cash Transfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. The technique used is decomposition of the Gini coefficient by factor components. The main...

Em 2006, o Programa Bolsa Família (PBF) atingiu a sua plena expansão, pretendendo cobrir 11 milhões de famílias, que era a meta de cobertura previamente estabelecida e foi mantida até o ano de 2009. Este trabalho visa avaliar se o aumento na cobertura do programa provocou uma deterioração...

The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to provide a preliminary answer to the question of how long will improvements in schooling of younger cohorts take o change the distribution of educational endowments of the total...

As discussões sobre capacitação, qualificação profissional e inserção produtiva devem considerar a vulnerabilidade social em que se encontra parte da população brasileira. Cerca de 16 milhões de famílias atendem aos critérios do Cadastro Único do Bolsa Família. Nestas famílias...

Este artigo mede a evolução, entre 1996 e 2005, da segregação por qualificação profissional no que se refere a firmas no mercado de trabalho formal brasileiro. O objetivo é verificar em que medida as firmas possuem uma composição de qualificação laboral diferente daquela dos...

We decompose changes in the Gini coefficient to investigate whether the Conditional Cash Tranfers (CCT) have had an inequality reducing effect in three Latin American countries: Brazil, Mexico and Chile. We conclude that CCT programs helped reducing inequality between the mid-1990s and the...

This paper evaluates the contribution of cash transfer programmes to the observed fall in inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2004 as well as its impact on poverty. We use the 2004 Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) that for the first time collected data on the incidence of some of the...

This paper uses data from the annual School Census to describe the physical and human resource infrastructure available to Brazilian primary schools. We investigate access to basic services such as water, electricity, and sewage; facilities available in the school; existence of a library or...

The structure of some household surveys allows the evaluation of social programs which are implemented gradually by municipality and whose objectives are measurable by survey variables. Such evaluations do not require over sampling of areas in which the program was implemented, nor the...