Differentials of labor income among health professionals in Brazil - 2010/2017
International Journal of Development Research
Differentials of labor income among health professionals in Brazil - 2010/2017
Received 02nd September, 2022; Received in revised form 26th September, 2022; Accepted 17th October, 2022; Published online 30th October, 2022
Copyright©2022, Naanda Kaanna Matos de Souza et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Brazilian wage disparities are substantially high and occur in all occupations registered in the country, even if such occupations require higher levels of education. In view of this, this article aims to analyze the wages, in a specific group of the employed differentials: health professionals, by socioeconomic and demographic characteristics of these professionals. The data are from the Annual List of Social Information of the Social Security and Employment Secretariat of the Ministry of Economy and were used in the Cross Sections of 2010 and 2017. Estimates of the Mincerian equation of income using Ordinary Least Squares. The results show that all health professionals earned less than the income of a doctor in both years. Furthermore, by controlling for the same variables, the income disparities between a doctor and other health professionals increase in 2017, compared to 2010.
