Browsing FGV EPGE - Ensaios Econômicos by Subject "Renda - Distribuição"
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The costs of education, longevity and the poverty of nations
2003-01-03This paper explores the distortions on the cost of education, associated with government policies and institutional factors, as an additional determinant of cross-country income differences. Agents are finitely lived and ... -
Desesperança de vida: homicídio em Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro e São Paulo: 1981 a 1997
2000-05-01This paper studies the male homicide rate and its relation to economic variables in the states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo e Rio de Janeiro between 1981 and 1997. The novelty of our approach is the construction of homicide ... -
Desigualdade, estabilidade e bem-estar social
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The effects of longevity and distortions on education and retirement
2005-06-02This article studies the impact of longevity and taxation on life-cycle decisions and long-run income. Individuals allocate optimally their total lifetime between education, working and retirement. They also decide at each ... -
Growth and shared prosperity in Brazil
2017-12This paper proposes extensions of the idea of shared prosperity and inclusive development. It explores dynamic growth linkages between mean income, inequality and social welfare, on the one hand, and different labor ... -
Income inequality in a job-search model with heterogeneous discount factors: (revised version, forthcoming 2006, Revista Economia)
2006-01-01This paper investigates the income inequality generated by a jobsearch process when di§erent cohorts of homogeneous workers are allowed to have di§erent degrees of impatience. Using the fact the average wage under the ... -
Income inequality in a job-search model with heterogeneous time preferences
2004-03-01This paper explores the use of an intertemporal job-search model in the investigation of within-cohort and between-cohort income inequality, the latter being generated by the heterogeneity of time preferences among cohorts ... -
Income inequality: the role of impatience in a job-search process
2004-08-01This paper investigates the income inequality generated by a jobsearch process when di§erent cohorts of homogeneous workers are allowed to have di§erent degrees of impatience. Using the fact the average wage under the ... -
Inflation and income inequality: A link through the job-search process
2004-08-01In this paper I devise a new channel by means of which the (empirically documented) positive correlation between ináation and income inequality can be understood. Available empirical evidence reveals that ináation increases ... -
Inflation and income inequality: a shopping-time aproach: (Forthcoming, Journal of Development Economics)
2004-09-01Our work is based on a simpliÖed heterogenous-agent shoppingtime economy in which economic agents present distinct productivities in the production of the consumption good, and di§erentiated access to transacting assets. ... -
Intrahousehold inequality and the joint taxation of household earnings
We study the optimal design of nonlinear labor income tax for multiperson households. Each household consists of two workers with different productivity levels and unequal access to the family’s economic resources. We show ... -
On the nature of income inequality across nations
2000-03-01In this paper, we investigate the nature of income inequality across nations. First, rather than functional forms or parameter values in calibration exercises that can potentially drives results, we estimate, test, and ... -
On the positive correlation between income inequality and unemployment
2004-08-01Several empirical studies in the literature have documented the existence of a positive correlation between income inequalitiy and unemployment. I provide a theoretical framework under which this correlation can be better ... -
Poverty, inequality and income policies: Lula's real
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Returns and intergenerational mobility of education during period of falling earnings inequality in Brazil
2017-12-21Education related changes are often argued as the main reasons for changes in earnings distribuctions. However, omitted variable and measurement error biases possibly affect econometric estimates of these effects. Brazil ... -
A search-theoretic explanation for the negative correlation between labor income and impatience
2004-08-01Lawrance (1991) has shown, through the estimation of consumption Euler equations, that subjective rates of impatience (time preference) in the U.S. are three to Öve percentage points higher for households with lower average ...
