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Class or location? What explains the rising tide of absolute global income inequality during 1850-2010?
(Universidad EAFITEscuela de Economía y Finanzas, 2015-03-01)
This paper is the first to decompose absolute global income inequality into its within-country class and between-country location components. The estimates show that until 1970 locational income differences were the ...
Human capital and the recent fall of earnings inequality in Brazil
(Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria, 2011-12-02)
Earnings inequality has started to fall in Brazil in recent years, after remaining very high for decades. We describe this decline using a flexible decomposition technique and assess the contributions of education and ...
Development, crime and punishment: accounting for the international differences in crime rates
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2004-02)
This paper analyzes the determinants of the heterogeneity in crime rates across countries, focusing on reporting rates and development. The behavior of the reporting rate is studied by comparing data from victimization ...
A tributação como instrumento de redução da desigualdade de renda e riqueza: uma abordagem do plano internacional ao plano local
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2019-11-26)
Given the growing inequality of income and wealth, especially in the Brazilian territory, the dissertation proposes to analyze taxation as an instrument to reduce the concentration of income and wealth, by adopting ...
A tributação como instrumento de redução da desigualdade de renda e riqueza: uma abordagem do plano internacional ao plano local
(Universidade do Vale do Rio dos Sinos, 2019-11-26)
Given the growing inequality of income and wealth, especially in the Brazilian territory, the dissertation proposes to analyze taxation as an instrument to reduce the concentration of income and wealth, by adopting ...
Reduction of social inequalities in life expectancy in a city of Southeastern Brazil
(Biomed Central LtdLondonInglaterra, 2011)
Top incomes, wealth and inheritance: special issue in homage to Tony Atkinson
(Springer, 2018-06)
In the second of the three issues that the Journal of Economic Inequality is publishing in honour of Sir Anthony Barnes “Tony” Atkinson, we turn to what has become one of the most dynamic areas of research in recent years, ...