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The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19): A descriptive analysisIn this paper we use different sources of data on job task content to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their relati...
Brazil Inequality PolarizationWorking Paper
Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues?: Evidence from a top university in BrazilPeers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students’ efforts...
Affirmative action Peer effect Ranking effectWorking Paper
Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gap: A decomposition approachThe purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power...
Brazil Income inequality DecompositionWorking Paper
Precarization or protection? The impact of trade and labour policies on informalitySeveral episodes of market-oriented reforms in developing countries have been accompanied by a significant rise in work outside of the formal economy...
Brazil Informality TradeJournal Article
Internal migration and crime in BrazilTHIS ARTICLE IS ON EARLY VIEW/JUST ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT/PRE COPY-EDITING Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationJournal Article
Migrating out of mega-cities: Evidence from BrazilTraditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect...
Brazil Internal migration PricesWorking Paper
Roots of dissent: Trade liberalization and the rise of populism in BrazilThis paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995...
Trade liberalization Populism AusterityWorking Paper
Inclusive growth without structural transformation?: The case of BrazilThrough rapid urbanization, Brazil—previously a country where most workers were in the agricultural sector—went through a strong process of structural transformation that lasted almost four decades until economic liberalization at the beg...
Brazil import substitution Inclusive growthWorking Paper
The effect of class assignment on academic performance and the labour market: Evidence from a public federal university in BrazilCan students’ rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement?...
Affirmative action Brazil EducationWorking Paper
Migrants leaving mega-cities: Where they move and why prices matterTraditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect...
Brazil Internal migration PricesWorking Paper
Internal migration and crime in BrazilEmpirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...
Brazil Crime Internal migrationSeminar
Alysson Portella on racial social norms and education: “whitening” ideology and students’ performance in BrazilAlysson Portella will present at the WIDER Seminar Series on 6 November 2019. Abstract - Racial social norms and education: “whitening” ideology and students’ performance in Brazil We investigate to what extent racial social norms...
Journal Article
Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in Brazil: Patterns, trends, and their impacts on institutionsPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversityWorking Paper
Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development Goals: Insights from BrazilConcerns about the dramatic rise in income inequality across the world and, at the same time, assessments of national progress on the Millennium Development Goals made it clear that it is the intersection of income inequality, marginalized social ide...
Income distribution Intersecting inequalities Labour market segmentationWorking Paper
Race, resources, and representation: Evidence from Brazilian politiciansWhat explains the persistence of racial or ethnic inequalities in political representation, in the absence of strongly politicized racial or ethnic cleavages?...
Racial democracy Brazil ExperimentsWorking Paper
Patterns and trends of group-based inequality in BrazilIn this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years...
Brazil Group-based inequality Ethnic diversity