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Employment, productive structure, and income distribution in the Brazilian economy, 1996 and 2002 compared

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  • Camargo, Fernanda Sartori de
  • Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins

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Despite the advances in recent years in areas as education and combat to the poverty, Brazil continues to have one of the worst income distributions in the world. Nowadays, in a list with 126 countries and territories, Brazil has the 10th worse income distribution. As much as income distribuition, another problem faced by the Brazilian economy is over the growing demand for employment generation. Taking into consideration both of these aspects, the purpose of this paper is to make a relation and to compare how the productive structure and the income distribution in the Brazilian economy have had an impact over employment generation in 1996 and 2002. This paper uses as a theoretical basis the Leontief-Miyazawa approach. This model is constructed for the Brazilian economy for the above years, taking into consideration five income brackets and 42 sectors.

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  • Camargo, Fernanda Sartori de & Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins, 2006. "Employment, productive structure, and income distribution in the Brazilian economy, 1996 and 2002 compared," MPRA Paper 54503, University Library of Munich, Germany.
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    Keywords

    Employment; Brazil; input-output;
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    • C67 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Mathematical Methods; Programming Models; Mathematical and Simulation Modeling - - - Input-Output Models
    • D57 - Microeconomics - - General Equilibrium and Disequilibrium - - - Input-Output Tables and Analysis
    • R15 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Econometric and Input-Output Models; Other Methods

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