Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil /

We document a large decrease in earnings inequality in Brazil between 1996 and 2012. Using administrative linked employer-employee data, we fit high-dimensional worker and firm fixed effects models to understand the sources of this decrease. Firm effects account for 40 percent of the total decrease...

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Autor principal: Alvarez, Jorge
Altres autors: Benguria, Felipe, Engbom, Niklas, Moser, Christian
Format: Revista
Idioma:English
Publicat: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2017.
Col·lecció:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2017/278
Accés en línia:Full text available on IMF