REDISTRIBUTIVE IMPACT OF SOCIAL SPENDING IN THE METROPOLITAN REGIONS IN NORTHEAST OF BRAZIL, IN 2004

Abstract

The purpose of this work is to analyze the magnitude of the impact of social spending, represented by variables such as pensions, unemployment insurance, transfer of income from social programs and school lunch, on familiar income in the metropolitan regions of Fortaleza, Recife and Salvador, in the year 2004, with the goal of contributing to evaluate the effectiveness of those expenses in reducing the social unevenness. In this sense, three indexes were used: Gini, concentration and progressivity, built from the microdata of the household survey sampling - PNAD, IBGE.