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dc.rights.licenseO INSPER E ESTE REPOSITÓRIO NÃO DETÊM OS DIREITOS DE USO E REPRODUÇÃO DOS CONTEÚDOS AQUI REGISTRADOS. É RESPONSABILIDADE DOS USUÁRIOS INDIVIDUAIS VERIFICAR OS USOS PERMITIDOS NA FONTE ORIGINAL, RESPEITANDO-SE OS DIREITOS DE AUTOR OU EDITORpt_BR
dc.date.accessioned2022-10-11T19:24:59Z-
dc.date.available2022-10-11T19:24:59Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.issn1564-698Xpt_BR
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorio.insper.edu.br/handle/11224/4238-
dc.format.extentp. 37–67pt_BR
dc.format.mediumDigitalpt_BR
dc.language.isoInglêspt_BR
dc.publisherOxford Academicpt_BR
dc.relation.ispartofThe World Bank Economic Reviewpt_BR
dc.relation.urihttps://academic.oup.com/wber/article/36/1/37/6188498?searchresult=1pt_BR
dc.titleLabor Market Experience and Falling Earnings Inequality in Brazil: 1995–2012pt_BR
dc.typeArtigo Científicopt_BR
dc.description.otherThe Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The decline in other measures of earnings inequality was even larger, with the 90-10 percentile ratio falling by almost 40 percent. Applying micro-econometric decomposition techniques, this study parses out the proximate determinants of this substantial reduction in earnings inequality. Although a falling education premium did play a role, in line with received wisdom, this study finds that a reduction in the returns to labor market experience was a much more important factor driving lower wage disparities. It accounted for 53 percent of the observed decline in the Gini index during the period. Reductions in horizontal inequalities – the gender, race, regional and urban-rural wage gaps, conditional on human capital and institutional variables – also contributed. Two main factors operated against the decline: a greater disparity in wage premia to different sectors of economic activity, and the “paradox of progress”: the mechanical inequality-increasing effect of a more educated labor force when returns to education are convex.pt_BR
dc.subject.cnpqCiências Exatas e da Terrapt_BR
dc.subject.cnpqCiências Sociais Aplicadaspt_BR
dc.subject.keywordsearnings inequalitypt_BR
dc.subject.keywordsBrazilpt_BR
dc.subject.keywordsreturns to experiencept_BR
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/wber/lhab005pt_BR
dc.identifier.issue1pt_BR
dc.identifier.volume36pt_BR
dc.description.notesTrabalho Completopt_BR
dc.contributor.autorFirpo, Sergio Pinheiro-
dc.contributor.autorFerreira, Francisco H. G.-
dc.contributor.autorMessina, Julián-
dc.coverage.paisNão Informadopt_BR
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