Linkages between growth, poverty and the labour market

• Autor(a) principal: Kakwani, Nanak
• Data de Publicação: 2006
• Outros Autores: Neri, Marcelo Côrtes, Son, Hyun H.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional do FGV (FGV Repositório Digital)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/649
• topic: Inequality; Poverty; Growth; Pro-poor growth; Labour market; Desigualdade; Pobreza; Crescimento pró-pobre; Mercado de trabalho; Economia; Pobreza - Brasil; Desenvolvimento econômico; Mercado de trabalho - Brasil

From a methodological point of view, this paper makes two contributions to the literature. One contribution is the proposal of a new measure of pro-poor growth. This new measure provides the linkage between growth rates in mean income and in income inequality. In this context, growth is defined as pro-poor (or anti-poor) if there is a gain (or loss) in the growth rate due to a decrease (or increase) in inequality. The other contribution is a decomposition methodology that explores linkages growth patterns, and labour market performances. Through the decomposition analysis, growth in per capita income is explained in terms of four labour market components: the employment rate, hours of work, the labour force participation rate, and productivity. The proposed methodology are then applied to the Brazilian National Household Survey (PNAD) covering the period 1995-2004. The paper analyzes the evolution of Brazilian social indicators based on per capita income exploring links with adverse labour market performance.