in market shares and profits. The explanation advanced is that the shock of trade liberalization to profits was so great …

This paper examines how municipal taxes respond to the local impact of a labor market shock. The analysis exploits a …

There was substantial spatial variation in labor market outcomes in Brazil over the 1990's. In 2000, about one fifth of … estimation in the presence of spatially autocorrelated errors. Chief findings include: a very strong influence of initial …

This paper investigates whether the workforce in Brazil is geographically segmented by analyzing variation in workers … are not slgnificant in Brazil. Rather, the persistence of regional wage differentials, in spite of the increasing …

This paper examines the effect of weather shocks on violent crime using disaggregated data from Brazilian … increase in violent crime, with the effect appearing to persist beyond the growing season and over the medium run. To explain …, (un)-employment, poverty, inequality, and psychological factors do not seem to explain violent crime rates. …