Inequality of the income and the ‘retirements and pension’ in Brazil, southern region and State of Paraná

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to evaluate the component of the household revenue “retirements and pensions” contribution for the inequality of the household revenue distribution per capita in Brazil, southern region and State of Paraná, in the rural and urban environments, in 1999, 2001 and 2002. As for this, the household revenue per capita and the decomposition methodology of Gini’s index of the following components were used: revenue of the main work, revenue of other works, retirements and pensions, donations, rent revenues and other revenues (interests, dividends, etc.). It is highlighted in the results, the substantial contribution of the retirements and pensions for the inequality of the income distribution in Brazil and in the southern region. In the rural southern region and rural Paraná that situation does not happen, except for the year 2002, refuting the Brazilian tendency. The stratification of the household revenues enabled us to verify that, for all the analyzed rural areas, there is a better distribution of the revenues of retirements and pensions located in the inferior strata of the income.