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This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work … power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s …
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We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
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structure of inter-industry wage differentials remained remarkably stable in Brazil in the face of major shocks. …
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This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work … power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443322
male workers in Brazil and Mexico. Our analysis takes into account demographic, educational, and economic variations within … each country over time, using Demographic Censuses microdata from Brazil and Mexico. Results suggest that demographic and … countries. Moreover, in Brazil and Mexico, these effects are observed throughout the income distribution, contrary to what is …
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skill workers, in Brazil, between 1991 and 2000. …
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The empirical literature on the impact of unions on wages has stressed two major conclusions. Firstly, unionised workers earn a wage premium when compared to comparable nonunionised workers. Secondly, the dispersion of wages within the union sector is lower than in the nonunion sector. We...
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for discrimination to be observed in the labor market. Increased competition and reduced rents in the market for final goods should therefore lead to reduced labor market discrimination....
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