Este trabalho tem por objetivo estudar as relacoes de longo prazo existentes entre crescimento economico, distribuicao de renda e politica fiscal, obtidas a partir de modelos de crescimento endogeno, e testa-las em uma analise cross-section para os estados brasileiros entre 1970 e 1990....

This paper investigates the nature of income inequality across nations. Several exercises, such as variance decompositions, simulations and counter-factual analyses are performed. We find that, although total factor productivity has a leading role in explaining the dispersion of output per...

The emergence of slums is a common feature in a country's path towards urbanization, structural transformation and development. Based on salient micro and macro evidence of Brazilian labor, housing and education markets, we construct a simple model to examine the conditions for slums to emerge....