| Abstract: | This research note revisits the theme of “the cost of not being white in Brazil.” Based on 1996 National Household Survey
(PNAD) data, the results point out to still sizeable and significant monetary disadvantages suffered by nonwhites in the Brazilian
labor market. It is estimated that about 18 percent of the white-nonwhite income gap can be attributed to differential rates
of return to human capital investments and to other individual characteristics between the race/color groups.
Nelson do Valle Silva is Researcher at Laboratorio Nacional de Computacao Cientifica and Professor at Instituto Universitario
de Pesquisas do Rio de Janeiro. His most recent books areMobilidade Social no Brasil, Sao Paulo: Makron Books, 1999 (with J. Pastore) andCor e Estratificacao Social no Brasil Rio: Contracapa, 1999 (with C. Hasenbalg and M. Lima). He received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan. |
