Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless … very promising in order to foster a negotiated labour regulation. However, on average, those unions present a fragile … constituency, unions gather little resources to negotiate new forms of labour regulation. To overcome those problems, some …

legislative regulation of outsourcing. Probably, qualified impact evaluations of this phenomenon should be made, before any …

Regulation in the sanitation sector in Brazil is facing a great deal of debate regarding the government level in which …, we investigate how the absence of tariff regulation has dissipated efficiencies and allowed the practice of monopolistic …

market failures or to remove inadequate regulation. In the first part, the structure, size and economic relevance of the … industry are presented. There is also a brief review of government regulation. The second part is dedicated to analyzing the … possibilities; cost structures and freight rates; the impact of government regulation; and factors concerning efficiency and growth …