Working Paper

Through 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...

Working Paper

Can students’ rank in the ability distribution of their class impact their academic achievement?...

Working Paper

Traditional 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...

Working Paper

Empirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants...

Seminar

Alysson 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

Part of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change

Working Paper

Concerns 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...

Working Paper

What explains the persistence of racial or ethnic inequalities in political representation, in the absence of strongly politicized racial or ethnic cleavages?...

Working Paper

In this paper, we analyse the patterns and trends of group-based inequalities in Brazil in the past 30 years...

Project

Theme: 2006-07

The project centers on the inter-linkages between the major developing countries of Brazil, India, China and South Africa and the global economy, with a special emphasis on the implications of China’s growth on smaller economies and the rest...