O período de tempo no qual uma empresa opera em um determinado mercado indica seu histórico de desempenho nos negócios. As evidências disponíveis sugerem que empresas maduras apresentam menores probabilidades de saída de mercado e de falência. A relação entre idade das empresas e...

O objetivo deste artigo é testar empiricamente a relação entre salários e esforço para a indústria brasileira de construção civil. Tal relação é advogada por modelos de salário eficiência, mais especificamente, as versões Shirking Model e Labor Discipline Model. Como a variável...

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

The aim of this paper is to test the relationship between wage and workers’ labor effort for the Brazilian construction industry. This relationship is stated by both the shirking and the labor discipline versions of efficiency wage models. Actually workers’ labor effort is neither verifiable...

The late 1990s in Brazil are a period characterized by a large increase in foreign direct investment inflows (and outflows). This process motivates the present study about job flows in domestic and foreign firms. Although foreign firms tend to be considered more `footloose’ than domestic...

The economic theory proposes two hypotheses for the relationship between wages and risk of job loss due to rm (or plant) closure. The rst hypothesis posits that workers at greater risk should be compensated by higher wages. This is known as the theory of compensating wage diferentials. The...

The promotion of public policy development, focusing on results, needs indicators for the monitoring of its effectiveness. The indices of municipal development, synthetic indices that capture certain aspects of local development, serve as reference for the diagnosis and monitoring of the results...