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Escolaridade dos Pais, Desempenho no Mercado de Trabalho e Desigualdade de Rendimentos

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  • Reis, Mauricio Cortez
  • Ramos, Lauro

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Parents’ education is highly associated with workers’ performance in the Brazilian labor market. Then, family background may play a role in determining the astonishing level of income inequality in Brazil. Using data from the social mobility supplement of the 1996 PNAD (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílio), this paper investigates the relationship between labor earnings inequality and schooling of the parents of the workers. The results show that parental education, both through its influence on the educational level of the workers and on the returns to schooling, is related tothe unequal distribution of labor earnings in Brazil, although the former channel seems to be much more important.

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  • Reis, Mauricio Cortez & Ramos, Lauro, 2011. "Escolaridade dos Pais, Desempenho no Mercado de Trabalho e Desigualdade de Rendimentos," Revista Brasileira de Economia - RBE, EPGE Brazilian School of Economics and Finance - FGV EPGE (Brazil), vol. 65(2), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:fgv:epgrbe:v:65:y:2011:i:2:a:1522
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