Brazil’s south–north labour income gap re-examined: evidence across purchasing power adjusted wage distributions
利用购买力指数调整巴西大都市区名义工资，分析东南部与东北部、北部地区工资差距的成因，对研究区域不平等和劳动力市场的学者有参考价值。
This article provides new evidence for the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil throughout the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power. We use a unique and recent regional purchasing power index to adjust nominal values of Brazilian metropolitan regions and consider recentred influence function (RIF) regressions to measure the contributions of different determinants of wages to the inequality between the São Paulo metropolitan region in the Southeast (the richest one, apart from Brasília) and each of the most important metropolitan regions of the Northeast and North (Fortaleza, Recife, Salvador and Belém).