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The paper presents an exploratory study aims to verify the potential of public policy conferences for the inclusion of population segments that have been traditionally excluded from political participation processes, such as women, blacks, illiterates, low schooling and less income. The study...
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This study analyzes trends in average commute times in Brazil between 1992 and 2009. It distinguishes between the nine largest metropolitan areas plus the Federal District of Brasília and describes how differences among these areas vary according to income levels and gender. This paper is based...
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Inequality of income distribution in Brazil: the contribution of pensions and of other components of per capita … inequality of the income distribution. Next, it examines the data of the last National Sample Survey of Households of Brazil … and from other components of income influence income inequality in Brazil. Finally, it examines how each of these …
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trade-offs of benefit designs, estimating costs and impacts on poverty and inequality and assessing operational and … inequality than universal transfers. The hybrid model presents results close to those estimated for the targeted model and has …
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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contribute to increase income inequality. …
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In a pay-as-you-go system (SPR) receives contributions from active generations to finance the benefit of inactive people, making their financial balance depend on the proportion of inactive people in the population, a proportion that will double in Brazil in the next 30 years, making it...
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The aim of this study is to investigate three relevant dimensions of Brazilian inequality in the labor market, gender …
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