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The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
Menezes-Filho, Naercio - 2010
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 …
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Mechanisms in a Digitalized World
Demange, Gabrielle - 2018
Due to computing and communication facilities, formal procedures, often referred to as ‘algorithms', are now extensively used in public, economic and social areas. These procedures, currently at the forefront of criticisms, share some features with mechanisms as defined by economists,...
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Mining Matters : Natural Resource Extraction and Local Business Constraints
De Haas, Ralph - 2016
We estimate the impact of local mining activity on the business constraints experienced by 22,150 firms across eight resource-rich countries. We find that with the presence of active mines, the business environment in the immediate vicinity (20 km) of a firm deteriorates but business constraints...
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms earn their highest market share within their domestic market. This home market advantage persists despite substantial integration of international markets during the past several decades. The goal of this paper is to quantify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013012565
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Earnings Inequality and the Minimum Wage : Evidence from Brazil
Engbom, Niklas - 2017
We quantify the effect of a minimum wage on compression throughout the earnings distribution. Using the case of Brazil …
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Labour Market Participation in Brazil : A Discrete Game Approach
Resende, Marcelo - 2017
The paper aims to investigate the labour market participation of couples in Brazil in 2013. The observed endogenous …
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Service Quality in Electricity Distribution in Brazil : A Malmquist Approach
Marinho, Alexandre - 2017
The paper undertakes a dynamic analysis for service quality in the electricity distribution in Brazil between 2010 and …
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The Deepening China Brazil Economic Relationship
Whalley, John - 2015
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/10013038340
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Product versus Process : Innovation Strategies of Multi-Product Firms
Flach, Lisandra - 2015
We investigate the effect of better access to foreign markets on innovation strategies of multi-product firms in industries with different scope for product differentiation. Industry-specific demand and cost linkages induce a distinction between the returns to innovation. In differentiated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013020507
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Determinants of Survival of Newly Created SMEs in the Brazilian Manufacturing : An Econometric Study
Facanha, Luis Otavio - 2012
The paper investigates the survival of newly created small and medium enterprises in Brazilian manufacturing taking as reference the 1996-2005 period. The econometric analysis relies on time-varying version of the proportional hazard rate model that controls for unobserved heterogeneity. The...
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