Top incomes in Brazil: preliminary results

Pedro Ferreira de Souza (), Marcelo Medeiros and Fabio Castro ()
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Pedro Ferreira de Souza: Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (Ipea) and University of Brasília (UnB)
Fabio Castro: University of Brasília (UnB)

Economics Bulletin, 2015, vol. 35, issue 2, 998-1004

Abstract: We present the preliminary results of our analysis of top incomes in Brazil from 2006 to 2012. We describe the evolution of the income shares of the top 1% and the top 5% and estimate a “tax-corrected†Gini coefficient. The data come from personal income tax returns, national accounts and household surveys. The results show that the levels of income inequality in Brazil are higher than those estimated using household surveys, and, contrary to what these surveys show, inequality did not fall over this period: the current trend is one of stability.

Keywords: income inequality; top incomes; top income shares; tax data (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: D3 N3 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015-04-22
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