TY  - BOOK
AU  - Alvarez,Jorge
AU  - Benguria,Felipe
AU  - Engbom,Niklas
AU  - Moser,Christian
TI  - Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil
T2  - IMF Working Papers
SN  - 1484333039 :
PY  - 2017///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Employment
KW  - imf
KW  - Firm Behavior: Empirical Analysis
KW  - Income Inequality
KW  - Wage Level And Structure
KW  - Brazil
N2  - We document a large decrease in earnings inequality in Brazil between 1996 and 2012. Using administrative linked employer-employee data, we fit high-dimensional worker and firm fixed effects models to understand the sources of this decrease. Firm effects account for 40 percent of the total decrease and worker effects for 29 percent. Changes in observable worker and firm characteristics contributed little to these trends. Instead, the decrease is primarily due to a compression of returns to these characteristics, particularly a declining firm productivity pay premium. Our results shed light on potential drivers of earnings inequality dynamics
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