The study analyzes the convergence of the labor productivity in the Brazilian agricultural sector in the nineties … indicate that the Brazilian states are diverging in the labor productivity in the agricultural sector. Some states will move to … a high level and others to a low level of labor productivity. In five of the other sectors of the Brazilian economy …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the emergence of the child labor problem in tobacco growing in Agudo (Rio Grande do … Sul state), triggered by the promulgation of Act 6.481/2008, which addresses the worst child labor conditions. The … of a clash between different conceptions of child labor in small scale family farmers. The legal devices, the commitment …

We investigate how labor and investment demand at the firm level (gross as well as net and replacement investment … for the important changes and differences in labor and investment demand between the two subperiods and across the three …

The paper aims at qualifying the links between labor-market-institutions, taxation, tax monitoring, and underground … the government. Vacancies and workers search are directed at a specific labor market. Workers are heterogenous in the …

division of labor. Moreover, as firms switch to decentralization, their employment structure becomes more homogeneous and wage …

the newer one is based on a confusion between the conceptual and factual determination of the value of labor power. Second …