Falling urban wage premium and inequality trends: evidence for Brazil

Bruno de Oliveira Cruz () and Paolo Naticchioni
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Bruno de Oliveira Cruz: IPEA

INVESTIGACIONES REGIONALES - Journal of REGIONAL RESEARCH, 2012, issue 24, 91-113

Abstract: In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results. First, we find a decreasing urban wage premium over the period 2002-2009 using both OLS and quantile regression. Second, we show that the fall in the urban wage premium is more pronounced at the 90th percentile than at the 10th percentile. This finding suggests that the falling urban wage premium has contributed to the reduction in inequality observed in Brazil in the last decade.

Keywords: Urban Wage Premium; Wage Inequality; Brazil (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J31 J61 R23 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012
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Working Paper: FALLING URBAN WAGE PREMIUM ANDINEQUALITY TRENDS: EVIDENCE FOR BRAZIL (2014)
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