Casamentos Seletivos e Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil

Pereira, Luciene Torres de Mello; Santos, Cezar

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“…The counterfactual scenario arising from random re-matching suggests a Gini coefficient between 2 and 4 points lower than that observed for 2018. This result is slightly higher than that reported for the United States (Eika et al, 2019;Greenwood et al, 2014;Hryshko et al, 2017), although it is in the intermediate range of that reported for developing countries (Leal, 2015;Pereira & Santos, 2017). The above suggests that assortative mating may operate more strongly in developing countries.…”

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“…Similar conclusions were obtained by Boertien and Permanyer (2019) when considering a group of 21 European countries. Pereira and Santos (2017) reported a 3-point reduction in Brazil's Gini coefficient (0.57 vs. 0.54) in 2010, after randomly re-matching observations in one of the few precedents for developing countries. The authors highlighted that educational assortative mating has increased between 1970-2010 in that country.…”

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The Impact of Educational Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: Evidence from Argentina

González¹,

Kumbykuaa²,

Dip³

2021

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This paper seeks to quantify the impact of educational assortative mating on income inequality among households in Argentina. We use microdata from two household surveys conducted by the National Institute of Statistics and Census: The Permanent Household Survey and the National Survey of Risk Factors. We construct contingency tables and perform a regression analysis to study the existence of educational assortative mating. We also present counterfactual simulations of random re-matching of observations. The results show that a sizeable proportion of couples are educationally homogamous (45%). Comparing the Gini coefficients calculated in the real matching and the simulated scenarios, we observe a reduction of up to 4 points. Thus, the educational assortative mating represents a relevant dimension to explain income inequality. Our results recommend considering this matching pattern when defining optimal income taxes; this is, if there is a high positive covariance between the income of both members of the couple, it seems appropriate, from a redistributive point of view, to define income taxes at the household level and not at the individual level (as is currently the case in most countries, including Argentina).

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The Impact of Educational Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: Evidence from Argentina

González¹,

Kumbykuaa²,

Dip³

2021

JPSS

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“…That is to say, we counted half of all individuals who filed a tax return in this bracket, besides all who filed the bracket above BR$ 1,000,000.9 The scenario is even more serious when we consider that assortative mating has increased in Brazil over the past few decades. According toPereira and Santos (2017), for example, between 1970 and 2010 Brazilians increasingly married partners who have similar socioeconomic characteristics. Using counterfactual simulations, the authors pointed out that although income inequality improved in Brazil during this period, the Brazilian income distribution would have improved even more had this tendency for assortative mating not happened.…”

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The Role of Inheritance and Taxation on Wealth and Income Distribution in Brazil and the State of Rio Grande Do Sul

Freitas

2021

Rev. econ. contemp.

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This article analyzes the role of inheritance and donation on the distribution of wealth and income in Brazil and the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Although several scholars coming from branches of Social Sciences have already scrutinized the influence that slavery and colonial exploitation had - and still have - in the Brazil’s development, no work in the economic literature has thus far attempted to estimate Brazil’s current inheritance stock in monetary terms. With this in mind, this paper has three specific goals: i) to estimate, in accordance with an original framework, the inheritance stock of Brazil (and Rio Grande do Sul) and their flow with respect to national income and household disposable income; ii) to measure potential revenue through the application of a more progressive taxation of inheritance and donations based on inheritance stock estimates and iii) to simulate the distributional effect of reallocating these new fiscal resources. It is important to note, however, that the simulations presented in this paper are static exercises, and do not intend to capture general equilibrium or behavioral effects.

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Changes in the women’s labor market and education and their impacts on marriage and inequality: evidence from Brazil

Firpo

Hakak

2021

Empir Econ

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Casamentos Seletivos e Desigualdade de Renda no Brasil

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The Impact of Educational Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: Evidence from Argentina

The Impact of Educational Assortative Mating on Income Inequality: Evidence from Argentina

The Role of Inheritance and Taxation on Wealth and Income Distribution in Brazil and the State of Rio Grande Do Sul

Changes in the women’s labor market and education and their impacts on marriage and inequality: evidence from Brazil

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