IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/ipe/ipetds/2170.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

A Estabilidade da Desigualdade no Brasil entre 2006 e 2012: resultados adicionais

Author

Listed:
  • Marcelo Medeiros
  • Pedro H. G. F. Souza

Abstract

Este trabalho avalia em que medida a tendência da desigualdade na distribuição de rendimentos totais entre os adultos no Brasil de 2006 a 2012 é afetada por medidas de desigualdade utilizadas; fontes de dados; definição de estratos e variáveis de ordenamento nas tabulações dos dados tributários; subestimação da base; e metodologia de correção da subestimação do topo nas pesquisas amostrais. Conclui-se que a hipótese de estabilidade da desigualdade no Brasil encontra respaldo em evidências empíricas. Diferentes tabulações de dados do Imposto de Renda da Pessoa Física (IRPF) e distintos métodos de estimação da desigualdade levam a resultados convergentes: nível mais alto que o medido nas pesquisas domiciliares; estabilidade; e grande importância dos ricos para explicar o comportamento da desigualdade entre 2006 e 2012. We examine how inequality measures, data sources, income brackets, ranking variables of tabulated tax data, underestimation of incomes in the bottom of the distribution and the methodology used to correct inequality affects the trends of inequality in total income among adults in Brazil between 2006 and 2012. The existing evidence corroborates the hypothesis that inequality has remained stable. Different data and methods lead to converging results: level higher than that measured using household surveys, stability and large importance of the rich to explain inequality trends between 2006 and 2012.

Suggested Citation

  • Marcelo Medeiros & Pedro H. G. F. Souza, 2016. "A Estabilidade da Desigualdade no Brasil entre 2006 e 2012: resultados adicionais," Discussion Papers 2170, Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada - IPEA.
  • Handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:2170
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://www.ipea.gov.br/portal/images/stories/PDFs/TDs/td_2170.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Fernando Rugitsky, 2017. "The rise and fall of the Brazilian economy (2004-2015): the economic antimiracle," Working Papers, Department of Economics 2017_29, University of São Paulo (FEA-USP).
    2. Patricia Andrade de Oliveira e Silva, 2017. "Social policy in Brazil (2004–2014): an overview," Working Papers 155, International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:ipe:ipetds:2170. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Fabio Schiavinatto (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/ipeaabr.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.