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Gini Palma microsimulation

Edgar Oliveira | Published Wednesday, December 11, 2024

The model is a microsimulation, where the agents don’t Interact with each other. It simulates income distribution, unemployment dynamics, education, and Family grant in Brazil, focusing on the impact on social inequality. It tracks indicators such as the Gini index, Lorenz curve, and Palma ratio. The objective is to explore how public income transfer policies, like the family grant, a􀆯ect wealth distribution and social inequality over time.

A model of the emergence of intersectional life course inequalities through transitions in the workplace. It explores LGBTQ citizens’ career outcomes and trajectories in relation to several mediating factors: (i) workplace discrimination; (ii) social capital; (iii) policy interventions (i.e., workplace equality, diversity, and inclusion policies); (iv) and LGBTQ employees’ behaviours in response to discrimination (i.e., moving workplaces and/or different strategies for managing the visibility of their identity).

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