Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/161510 
Year of Publication: 
2016
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Working Paper No. 2016/127
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years. Using data from the last four demographic censuses (1980, 1991, 2000, and 2010), we estimate numerous measures to analyse inequalities between different 'ethnic' groups. Our results show that the trend toward greater equality in Brazil shown in other analyses of vertical inequality is also found in terms of horizontal inequalities along racial, gender, and regional lines between 1980 and 2010. Nevertheless, horizontal inequalities in terms of race and gender in particular remain pronounced; as shown using various measures, race is highly correlated with income and education. We show that municipalities with low ethnic diversity and low income and education inequality tend to be located in the South region. In regression analysis, we note that ethnic diversity negatively affects the institutional quality of Brazilian municipalities.
Subjects: 
Brazil
group-based inequality
ethnic diversity
institutional quality
spatial econometrics
vertical inequality
JEL: 
C21
D63
I24
O17
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
ISBN: 
978-92-9256-171-0
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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