Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/248331 
Year of Publication: 
2021
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2021/117
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power. We use a unique and recent regional purchasing power index to adjust nominal values of the Brazilian metropolitan regions and consider recentred influence function (RIF) regressions to measure the contributions of different determinants of wages to the inequality between the São Paulo metropolitan region in the Southeast (the richest one, apart from Brasília) and each of the most important metropolitan regions of the Northeast (Fortaleza, Recife, and Salvador).
Subjects: 
Brazil
regional inequality
decomposition
wage distribution
JEL: 
C21
J31
J38
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9267-057-3
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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