Sources of welfare disparities across and within regions of Brazil : evidence from the 2002-03 household budget survey / Emmanuel Skoufias, Roy Katayama
"Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regio...
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| Main Authors: | Skoufias, Emmanuel |
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| Corporate Authors: | World Bank |
| Other Authors: | Katayama, Roy |
| Format: | Online-Resource |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | [Washington, D.C] : World Bank, 2008 |
| Series: | Policy research working paper
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| Online Access: | URL des Erstveröffentlichers |
| Summary: | "Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household attributes and returns to those attributes. This paper uses Oaxaca-Blinder decompositions at the mean as well as at different quantiles of welfare distributions on regionally representative household survey data (2002-03 Household Budget Survey). The analysis finds that household attributes account for most of the welfare differences between urban and rural areas within regions. However, comparing the lagging Northeast region with the leading Southeast region, differences in returns to attributes account for a large part of the welfare disparities, in particular in metropolitan areas, supporting the presence of agglomeration effects in booming areas. "--World Bank web site |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references. - Title from PDF file as viewed on 5/8/2009 Erscheinungsjahr in Vorlageform:[2008] Weitere Ausgabe: Skoufias, Emmanuel: Sources of welfare disparities across and within regions of Brazil |
| Physical Description: | 1 Online-Ressource (37 Seiten) |
