Convergence in income inequality: revisiting the case of Brazilian municipalities

Fábio Gomes and Gian Soave

Economics Bulletin, 2019, vol. 39, issue 1, 166-175

Abstract: This paper investigates the hypothesis of income inequality convergence for the Brazilian municipalities using data from the 1991, 2000 and 2010 census. As we are restricted to a single country, and we take into account regional differences, we interpret our approach as a conditional convergence analysis. The findings suggest that from 1991 to 2000 most macro regions (or states) were converging, but to a higher long-run Gini index. From 2000 to 2010 this upward trend was reverted, and we find convergence toward a lower inequality level.

Keywords: Income inequality; Growth regressions; Convergence; Brazil. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O1 O4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-02-02
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (1)

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.accessecon.com/Pubs/EB/2019/Volume39/EB-19-V39-I1-P17.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:ebl:ecbull:eb-18-00971

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Economics Bulletin from AccessEcon
Bibliographic data for series maintained by John P. Conley ().