Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/121514 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Texto para Discussão No. 2080
Publisher: 
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA), Brasília
Abstract (Translated): 
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education can be assumed to be a main determinant of the current levels of affluence. Consequently, an important part of total inequality cannot be reduced by educational policies.
Subjects: 
social stratification
income inequality
rich
affluence
education
wage inequality
JEL: 
D31
E24
I24
N36
J24
J31
J44
O15
O54
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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