Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/27420 
Year of Publication: 
2005
Series/Report no.: 
IAI Discussion Papers No. 130
Publisher: 
Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, Ibero-America Institute for Economic Research (IAI), Göttingen
Abstract: 
We examine how macroeconomic performance, mainly in the role of inflation, affected earnings inequality during the 1980's and early 90's 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

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