The main objective of this paper was to visualize the relation between government spending on basic education and the human capital accumulation process, observing the impacts of this spending on individual investments in higher education, and on economic growth. From the results obtained, we...

The secular rise in female labor force participation, highlighted in the recent macroeconomics literature on growth and structural change, has been associated with the declining price and wider availability of home appliances. This paper uses a new and unique country dataset on the price of home...

The article discusses the main alterations in the productive structure and in the strategies of industrial location in the metropolis; it analyzes the specificities of the industry and the changes in the industrial structure in the capital and in the other metropolitan cities among 1985/2000....

This study aims at contributing on the literature of unequal economic development in two ways. Firstly, it attempts to make a theoretical contribution regarding some elements that determine the unequal development: the Post Keynesians financial factors and the NeoSchumpeterians and ECLAC-UN...

The literature on urban economics usually point up the developing countries as those ones with urban structure extremely concentrated and unequal, and the developed countries as those countries with a better distribution of cities. This paper compares the national and state urban structures of...

The Rio Grande do Sul presented along the century XX a path of private capitalist development, in comparison with other States of the country. However, your internal logic of regional development felt with the amplification of economical inequalities, providing to the State the consolidation of...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of changes in fiscal policy and in technological level over the growth economic rate in Brazil, as well as, to identify the optimal level of taxation of the economy empirically, based on the model' version of endogenous growth proposed by...

This paper analyses the effects of two recent institutional changes, the "Reelection Amendment" and the Law of Fiscal Responsibility, on political budget cycles and fiscal performance of Brazilian federal states. The empirical evidence shows that (1) contrarily to previous results, the...

The real Brazilian tributary system presents a series of problems and despite everybody knows that a changing is necessary, it was not yet done. A lot of efforts is realized trying to evaluate the impacts of different proposals of tributary system alteration but their results are not persuasive...