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Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance
Almeida, Rita - 2005
"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of regulation at the city level, the authors...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522444
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International economic activities and the demand for skilled labor : evidence from Brazil and China
Fajnzylber, Pablo - 2004
Brazilian and Chinese manufacturing plants. They find that while in Brazil increased levels of international integration are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522908
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Protection, openness, and factor adjustment : evidence from the manufacturing sector in Uruguay
Casacuberta, Carlos - 2006
"The authors use a panel of manufacturing firms to analyze the adjustment process in capital blue collar and white collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 percent. They calculate the desired factor levels arising from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522169
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Structural change and poverty reduction in Brazil : the impact of the DOHA round
Mauricio - 2006
its connected poverty trends. The main focus of the authors is understanding, for the case of Brazil, how a trade shock …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522227
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Antidumping and safeguard mechanisms : the brazilian experience, 1988-2003
Kume, Honorio - 2005
"The authors focus on the evaluation of the antidumping regime from 1988 through 2003. During these years the Brazilian economy had to cope with several periods of macroeconomic instability and overvaluation of the domestic currency, particularly from 1990-92 and 1994-98. As a result, from 1992...
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Trade liberalization and labor market adjustment in Brazil
Blom, Andreas (contributor) - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523452
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Brazil : Trade Policies to Improve Efficiency, Increase Growth, and Reduce Poverty
World Bank - 2013
This comprehensive report-actually four compartmentalized reports in one-- focuses on policies to improve Brazil … integration options ? What domestic policies should be adopted to enhance Brazil's export response to trade openness? What policy … results for Brazil, the implications for the distribution of income, and the reallocation of output among sectors. Results for …
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Back to work : growing with jobs in Eastern Europe and Central Asia
Arias, Omar - 2014
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Job creation and labor reform in Latin America
Kaplan, David S. - 2008
"This paper studies the effects of labor-regulation reform using data for 10,396 firms from 14 Latin American countries. Firms are asked both how many permanent workers they would have hired and how many they would have terminated if labor regulations were made more flexible. I find that making...
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