Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/91423 
Year of Publication: 
2012
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 1793
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results. First, we find a decreasing urban wage premium over the period 2002-2009 using both OLS and quantile regression. Second, we show that the fall in the urban wage premium is more pronounced at the 90th percentile than at the 10th percentile. This finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the last decade.
Subjects: 
urban wage premium
wage inequality
Brazil
JEL: 
J31
J61
R23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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