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Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of … de-industrialization (Brazil, Russia and South Africa). China is the only country where an expanding manufacturing sector …
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Korea imports all of its primary energy, which leads to high dependency and vulnerability related to its energy supply. Efficiency in the use of energy is a way to reduce dependency and emissions. This study provides empirical results of the stochastic production process in energy use. Special...
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combining detailed school characteristics with time and geo-referenced crime information from the city of São Paulo, Brazil, we …
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Entrepreneurship is usually identified as an important determinant of aggregate productivity and long-term growth. The determinants of entrepreneurship, nevertheless, are not entirely understood. A recent literature has linked entrepreneurship to the development of the justice system. This paper...
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first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world …
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A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
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identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural …
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sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …
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The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
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instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for …
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