Class Structure, Education and the Reduction in Income Inequality (2002-2011)

This paper aims to reconcile the role ascribed to education as a major cause of the recent reduction in inequality in Brazil with a class analysis framework. A series of univariate and multivariate inequality decompositions were carried out, including the between-group/within-group decomposition of...

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Published in:Dados (Rio de Janeiro) 2014-01, Vol.57 (1), p.101
Main Authors: Souza, Pedro Herculano Guimarães Ferreira De, Carvalhaes, Flavio Alex De Oliveira
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