Productive structure and interpersonal income distribution in the Brazilian state of Bahia

Abstract

The present study brings a discussion about the productive structure influence on the changes in the interpersonal income distribution in the Brazilian State of Bahia. In this case, the base of the analysis is the application of Leontief-Miyazawa’s (1976) model and the impact measurement of exogenous changes on the income. For this purpose, we used data from an input-output matrix of the Bahia state for the year 2009 (Perobelli et al., 2015), as well as information about families consumption and income. Following, we run two simulations aiming to analyze the governmental income’s transfer impact, respectively, on poor and extremely poor families, and the measurement of the Gini’s coefficients. The results suggest that the productive sectors present different capacities among themselves to cause changes upon the income distribution, and that governmental transfer cause the reduction of income inequality in the Brazilian State of Bahia.