low-income workers in Brazil for thirteen years to explore the contribution of factors such as industrial structure and … skill segregation on upward income mobility. We find that cities in the south of Brazil are more effective engines of upward … prevalent in the cities of southern Brazil than in northern cities. This segregation, which can decline with specialization and …

American metropolitan areas with comparable geographic units in Brazil, China and India. Both Gibrat's Law and Zipf's Law seem … to hold as well in Brazil as in the U.S., but China and India look quite different. In Brazil and China, the implications …

prices. Using data on internal migration in Brazil, we find that common estimation procedures underestimate the importance of …