Origem de classe e chances de vida no Brasil

Abstract

The paper investigates the relationships between class origins and life chances in Brazil with PNAD 2014 social mobility data. The effects of the origin were estimated as predicted averages and proportional differences in income with a Generalized Linear Model. The magnitude and the evolution between the cohorts of the total and direct effects on income of the privileged origin question the equalizing role of education. The origin in the social top both boosts the income of those who have higher education and protects those who fail in school. The returns of upper and middle schooling are falling among the cohorts. This fall affects who originates in the social base, but not in the social top. Greater original inequality seems to favor the advantage of origin. The lower present-day income inequality, however, did not have reduced the advantage of origin between the first and last cohort.