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The article analyzes how income concentration creates poorly paid jobs in Brazil, highlighting social inequality's role.
The article analyzes the relationship between the high concentration of income and wealth and the formation of a labor market structurally marked by precariousness in Brazil. The central hypothesis argues that social inequality is not merely a byproduct of economic dynamics, but an organizing principle that shapes occupational morphology, encouraging the creation of low-productivity and poorly paid jobs. These are concentrated especially in personal services, notably where women and the Black population are most represented.
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Krein et al. (2026) studied this question.