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The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States
Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; Mündler, Marc-Andreas; … - 2006
We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275905
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Technological regimes in the Brazilian manufacturing industry: An empirical investigation
Vieira, Vinicius; Resende, Marcelo - 2013
The paper aims at assessing technological regimes in the context of the Brazilian manufacturing industry along the 2000 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291539
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Asymmetric and non-linear adjustments in local fiscal policy
Legrenzi, Gabriella Deborah - 2009
We analyse the revenue-expenditure patterns of local governments, allowing for asymmetric and non-linear adjustments of local spending and taxation to disequilibrium errors. Our results provide evidence of a downward inflexibility of both local government spending and local taxation, pointing to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264560
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Gender Bias in Teaching Evaluations
Mengel, Friederike - 2019
This paper provides new evidence on gender bias in teaching evaluations. We exploit a quasi-experimental dataset of 19,952 student evaluations of university faculty in a context where students are randomly allocated to female or male instructors. Despite the fact that neither students' grades...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892308
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Taxing Our Wealth
Scheuer, Florian; Slemrod, Joel - 2021
This paper evaluates proposals for an annual wealth tax. While a dozen OECD countries levied wealth taxes in the recent past, now only three retain them, with only Switzerland raising a comparable fraction of revenue as recent proposals for a US wealth tax. Studies of these taxes sometimes, but...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013314892
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Stochastic Contracts and Subjective Evaluations
Lang, Matthias - 2021
Subjective evaluations are widely used, but call for different contracts from traditional moral-hazard settings. Previous literature shows that contracts require payments to third parties, which real-world contracts rarely use. I show that the implicit assumption of deterministic contracts makes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013311715
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The extensive margin of exporting products: A firm-level analysis
Arkolakis, Costas; Muendler, Marc-Andreas - 2010
We use a panel of Brazilian exporters, their products, and destination markets to document a set of regularities for multi-product exporters: (i) few top-selling products account for the bulk of a firm's exports in a market, (ii) the distribution of exporter scope (the number of products per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274748
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The deepening China Brazil economic relationship
Whalley, John; Medianu, Dana - 2010
We document key features of the deepening economic relationship between Brazil and China. This is evident from sharply … international fora. Data presented show bilateral trade between Brazil and China surging after 2001 and China is now Brazil …'s largest export market while Brazil's export share to the US has halved. The number of bilateral cooperation agreements between …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274919
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A Destination-Based Allowance for Corporate Equity
Hebous, Shafik - 2019
Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits—particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)—this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892223
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Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing
Gerard, Francois - 2019
matched employee-employer data from Brazil, we find that displaced workers eligible for both UI and SP increase consumption at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012870648