@article{Trovão_Pitombo Leite_2021, title={Income inequality in pandemic times: an analysis of the decomposition of the Gini Index from PNAD COVID19}, volume={6}, url={https://braziliankeynesianreview.org/BKR/article/view/239}, DOI={10.33834/bkr.v6i2.239}, abstractNote={<p>This article aims to: 1) assess the first impacts of the pandemic on income inequality&nbsp;in Brazil from the PNAD COVID19 of IBGE; 2) present the contributions of the&nbsp;different sources of income to the composition of the Gini Index; showing its&nbsp;progressive or regressive character; 3) quantify the impact of emergency aid for the&nbsp;evolution of income inequality in this period; 4) measure, from five scenarios, the&nbsp;impact of a possible change in the values of the emergency aid, assuming its&nbsp;continuity in the near future or its complete extinction. The results show that social&nbsp;protection, permanent and emergency, proved to be fundamental for the reduction&nbsp;of inequality. More than that, its extinction or the reduction of the base values, will&nbsp;cause an increase in the concentration of income.</p>}, number={2}, journal={Brazilian Keynesian Review}, author={Trovão, Cassiano José Bezerra Marques and Pitombo Leite, Fabrício}, year={2021}, month={May}, pages={313-327} }