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| Title: | | Macroeconomic performance and inequality: Brazil 1983-94  |
| Authors: | | Meyer-Bittencourt, Manoel F. |
| Issue Date: | | 2005 |
| Series/Report no.: | | Discussion papers // Ibero America Institute for Economic Research 130 |
| Abstract: | | We examine how macroeconomic performance, mainly in the role of inflation, affected earnings inequality during the 1980s and early 90s in regional Brazil. The evidence shows that the high and volatile inflation rates existent at the time, combined with incomplete indexation coverage, had a regressive and significant effect on inequality. The results, based on panel time series T>N data and analysis, are robust for different concepts of inflation, inequality measures, estimators and specifications. Hence, sound macroeconomic policies, which keep inflation low and stable in the long run, are to be a necessary first step of any policy implemented to alleviate high inequality, and improve welfare in Brazil. |
| JEL: | | D31 E31 O11 |
| Document Type: | | Working Paper |
| Appears in Collections: | | Discussion Papers, IAI, Universität Göttingen
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