Artigo científico
Religious affiliation and earnings: Evidence from Brazil
Autores
LUAN VINICIUS BERNARDELLI; KORTT, MICHAEL A.; Michellon, Ednaldo
Dados bibliográficos
Ano: 2019
Local de publicação: Review of Social Economy (Online)
ISSN/ISBN: 14701162
Resumo
This article examines the relationship between wages and religious affiliation for Brazil using conventional human capital earnings functions. Data drawn from the 1991, 2000, and 2010 Brazilian Censuses were analysed for men and women. Our results indicate that Brazilian men (women) who identified as Traditional Protestants received a small wage premium 2.6% (1.4%) compared to those who identified as Catholic—the largest religious denomination in Brazil—even after controlling for a range of demographic and social characteristics. In contrast, Brazilian men (women) who identified as Pentecostal Protestants received a sizeable wage penalty of 4.3% (5.8%). In an effort to explain the wage gap between different religious affiliations in Brazil, we also conducted a conventional Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition.