Arbeitspapier

Gasto público, tributos e desigualdade de renda no Brasil

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes. Data comes from the Brazilian POF 2008-2009. The results indicate that the State contributes directly and to a large share of inequality. Factors associated to work in the public sector - wages and pensions - are very concentrated and regressive. Factors related to the private sector are still concentrated, but progressive. Redistributive mechanisms that could revert this inequality, such as taxes and social assistance, are very progressive but proportionally small; consequently their effect is completely offset by the regressive transfers from the State. Contrary to what has been found in other countries, public spending with work and social policies is concentrated in a small oligarchy and, taken as a whole, tends to increase inequality.

Language
Portugiesisch

Bibliographic citation
Series: Texto para Discussão ; No. 1844

Classification
Wirtschaft
Personal Income, Wealth, and Their Distributions
Factor Income Distribution
Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Taxation and Subsidies: Incidence
Taxation and Subsidies: Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
National Government Expenditures and Welfare Programs
Social Security and Public Pensions
Welfare, Well-Being, and Poverty: Government Programs; Provision and Effects of Welfare Programs
Public Sector Labor Markets
Subject
income distribution
social inequality
welfare state
social policies
public work
pensions

Event
Geistige Schöpfung
(who)
Medeiros, Marcelo
Souza, Pedro
Event
Veröffentlichung
(who)
Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)
(where)
Brasília
(when)
2013

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Object type

  • Arbeitspapier

Associated

  • Medeiros, Marcelo
  • Souza, Pedro
  • Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica Aplicada (IPEA)

Time of origin

  • 2013

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