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标题：Education or Inflation? The Roles of Structural Factors and Macroeconomic Instability in Explaining Brazilian Inequality in the 1980s
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作者：Francisco H.G. Ferreira ; Julie Litchfield
期刊名称：Japanese Studies Programme Papers
出版年度：1998
出版社：Suntory Toyota International Centres for Economics and Related Disciplines
摘要：This paper investigates possible explanations for the increases in inequality observed in Brazil during the 1980s. While the static decomposition of inequality by household characteristics reveal that education and race of the household head, as well as geographic locations, can account for a substantial proportion of inequality levels, a dynamic decomposition suggests that changes in inequality are not explained by income or allocation effects across these groupings, but by pure within-group inequality effects. The analysis then turns to the role of macroeconomic instability, and finds some significant correlation and regression coefficients which suggest a link between inflation and inequality, while poverty appears to be more strongly driven by real wages, growth and employment
关键词：Brazil; inequality decomposition; poverty; inflation and unemployment; ;education.