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Globalization and Formal Sector Migration in Brazil
Aguayo-Tellez, Ernesto; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Poole, … - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2008
We use novel linked employer?employee data to study the relationship between globalization and formal sector interstate … migration for Brazil. We estimate the worker?s multichoice migration problem and document that previously unobserved employer … globalization acts on internal migration through the growth of employment opportunities at locations with a high concentration of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001219
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Globalization and the Urban Poor
Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2007
The focus of this paper is the effect of contemporary globalization on poverty and inequality in cities of the ?global … south?. Specifically it addresses the impact of globalization on marginalized communities?slums, squatter settlements and …. The paper takes a critical look at current assumptions about globalization, urban poverty, and inequality, distinguishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059801
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Intra-Industry Adjustment to Import Competition: Theory and Application to the German Clothing Industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - CESifo - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583633
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The Impact of the 2007.08 Food Price Crisis in a Major Commodity Exporter: Food Prices, Inflation, and Inclusion in Brazil
Mueller, Bernardo; Mueller, Charles - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2012
Brazil in the past 2 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010854499
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Industrial Policies in Latin America
Peres, Wilson - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2011
This chapter analyses the main features of industrial policies carried out in Latin America since 1990. It studies these policies during import substitution industrialization and how they changed after the market-oriented economic reforms. It presents the main national strategies, policy lines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009366412
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Technological Regimes in the Brazilian Manufacturing Industry: An Empirical Investigation
Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - CESifo - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000-2005 period. The industries were classified in terms of SM-I and SM-II technological regimes by means of multivariate statistical methods based on variable approximating...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608712
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Africa-Brazil co-operation in social protection: Drivers, lessons and shifts in the engagement of the Brazilian Ministry of Social Development
Leite, Iara Costa; Suyama, Bianca; Pomeroy, Melissa - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2013
The Brazilian Ministry of Social Development.s co-operation with sub-Saharan Africa has shifted from an initial engagement in cash transfers to a recent engagement in food and nutritional security. This paper aims at understanding the main drivers for suc
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010643220
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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; Muendler, Marc-Andreas; … - CESifo - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766015
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Parsing the Urban Poverty Puzzle A Multi-generational Panel Study in Rio de Janeiro’s Favelas, 1968–2008
Perlman, Janice E. - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2010
Janeiro from 1968 to 2008. Major political transformations took place in Brazil during this interval: from dictatorship to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008518133
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The Case for an Intermediate Exchange Rate Regime with Endogenizing Market Structures and Capital Mobility
Kaltenbrunner, Annina; Nissanke, Machiko - World Institute for Development Economic Research … - 2009
; and to examine empirically the experiences and evolution of Brazil.s foreign exchange market under different exchange rate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004973352