, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal …

surrounding, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, Northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the …

Food price inflation in Brazil in the twelve months to June 2008 was 18 percent, while overall inflation was 5 … estimate the welfare consequences of these food price increases, and their distribution across households. Because Brazil is a … afforded by increases in two large social assistance benefits, the overall impact of higher food prices in Brazil was U …

This study gives a comparative overview of labor market dynamics and institutional arrangements in Germany and Brazil … during the 2008-09 crisis in the German manufacturing sector, in Brazil such plant-level flexibility to avoid dismissals was …

Military Polices in the state of Minas Gerais, Brazil, in the context of the IGESP program. The IGESP is based on the …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world …