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Minimum Wage and Income Distribution in Brazil from the 2000s

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NOPOOR WP#7_N°44_Minimum Wage in Brazil.pdf (1.156Mb)
Date
2016-03
Collection title
NOPOOR Working Paper
Collection Id
44
Dewey
Economie du travail
Sujet
Minimum wage; Brazilian income distribution; functional income distribution
JEL code
J.J3.J30; J.J3.J38; H.H5.H53; E.E2.E24; E.E2.E27
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/17827
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Saboia, João
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Neto, João Hallak
Type
Document de travail / Working paper
Item number of pages
20
Abstract (EN)
For several years Brazilian minimum wage (MW) has been going through an intense process of growth. Different authors have argued that an important part of the improvement in income distribution can be attributed to increased MW in recent past. Using income elasticities with respect to MW, this paper seeks to estimate the effects of current MW adjustment policy on improving income distribution. The results of simulations show that the MW contributed greatly in recent years through the labor market as well as through pensions and other official income transfers

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