Migração e distribuição regional de renda no Brasil

Abstract

This paper studies the effect of labor migration across Brazilian states on regional income distribution. We first estimate a Mincer regression of the logarithm of wages on several control variables and a migration dummy, using Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (Pnad) data. We use the result to construct counter-factual distributions in wich there is no migration. We find that migration increases the average income of all states (but São Paulo and Espírito Santo) and of the country. The relative income of the Northeast states with respect to those in the Southeast is also raised, so that we can conclude that it decreases regional income inequality.