摘要：Brazil is one of the most unequal countries regarding income distribution. A consequence of this inequality is that although Brazil is a middle income country, poverty levels are quite high when compared to countries with similar per capita income levels. This paper discusses these subjects for the municipally of Belo Horizonte. In order to do so, we compared the normal sector with the special or subnormal one, which is composed by slums and comparable areas. We estimated Micerian income equations for workers in both residential sectors so as to apprehend if there were differences in wages that were correlated with place of residence. Moreover, we estimated the proportion of poor people and the Gini index for both areas. Besides that, counter-factual microsimulations simulated the impacts on poverty and inequality levels if schooling levels in both sector of residence were similar, and also if the disadvantages related to place of residence did not exist. We observed that the influence of educational differences were much more significant than the ones related to sector of residence.
关键词：favelas; desigualdade de renda; escolaridade; pobreza.
