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Rising Human Capital but Constant Inequality: The Education Composition Effect in Brazil

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  • Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino
  • Fernandes, Reynaldo
  • Picchetti, Paulo

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Este artigo examina o impacto da composição educacional da força de trabalho e dos retornos à educação sobre a dispersão dos salários dos homens no Brasil nos últimos 20 anos. Ele aplica uma regressão quantílica sobre um polinômio de idade, tendência e interações usando dados das PNADs entre 1977 e 1997. Os resultados indicam que o aumento da escolaridade da população brasileira ainda não provocou uma queda da desigualdade porque as mudanças na composição educacional contribuiram para um aumento da desigualdade. As simulações indicam que o efeito de composição vai contribuir para uma queda substancial da desigualdade no futuro próximo.

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  • Menezes-Filho, Naercio Aquino & Fernandes, Reynaldo & Picchetti, Paulo, 2006. "Rising Human Capital but Constant Inequality: The Education Composition Effect in Brazil," Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), vol. 60(4), February.
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    2. Figueiredo, Erik Alencar de & Annegues, Ana Claudia & Souza, Wallace Patrick Santos de Farias, 2015. "Determinants of unfair inequality in Brazil, 1995 and 2009," Revista CEPAL, Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL), April.
    3. Sotomayor, Orlando J., 2009. "Changes in the Distribution of Household Income in Brazil: The Role of Male and Female Earnings," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 37(10), pages 1706-1715, October.
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    5. Tavares, Priscilla Albuquerque & Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino, 2011. "Human Capital and the Recent Fall of Earnings Inequality in Brazil," Brazilian Review of Econometrics, Sociedade Brasileira de Econometria - SBE, vol. 31(2), December.

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