Resumen de A Comparative Portrait of Long-Run Racial Disparity in the United States and Brazil
The relative incomes and education-levels of Blackand whitepopulationsin the United States and Brazilare considered after Abolition, and framed by earlier disparities intheirnatural rates of increase.For the post-World War Twoperiod, the effects of demography, education, and regional migration on the Black-white income gap are disentangled using census microdata and a single-equation form Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition.These variables explain progressively less of income inequality over time, meaning that discrimination or other unobserved factors have become more-substantial determinantsof relative earnings.Education, measured by literacyor years of schooling, was themajor reasonbehind reductions in income gaps during this period, followed by demography and migration.While both countries have made gains towards racial equality, theirtiming is entirely divergent(and sometimes counter to popular understandings):the best decade in these terms for the USwas the 1960s, and the worst, the 2000sor 2010s; and, vice-versa for Brazil.
