This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol's cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model implies that stagnant sectors are driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. But in a no growth economy the income is constant. It is investigated in two...

This paper investigates the returns to education in terms of individuals’ health in Brazil. We use the Heckman procedure (1979) and a nonlinear model that allows the consideration of the existence of increasing returns. The study employs microdata from National Survey by Household Sample for...

This study examines whether health care is affected by Baumol’s cost disease in a scenario of no growth. Baumol's model implies that stagnant sectors are driven by wage increases in excess of productivity growth. But in a no growth economy the income is constant. It is investigated in two...

This paper investigates the returns to education in terms of individuals' health in Brazil. We use the Heckman procedure (1979) and a nonlinear model that allows the consideration of the existence of increasing returns. The study employs microdata from National Survey by Household Sample for...

O objetivo deste artigo é estimar as funções de capital humano dos estados brasileiros. As estimativas de uma função contínua, baseadas no modelo teórico apresentado, visam obter as taxas de retornos de cada nível de escolaridade, por sexo e individualizadas por estado. O modelo teórico...

O artigo evidencia as transformações ocorridas na agricultura paranaense a partir do processo de integração das economias regionais no Brasil. A ênfase recai sobre as alterações ocorridas na estrutura produtiva da agricultura da economia estadual. O trabalho esboça alguns traços mais...