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Industrial structure and child labor : evidence from the Brazilian population census
Manacorda, Marco; Rosati, Furio Camillo - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008664098
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Relaxing credit constraints in emerging economies : the impact of public loans on the performance of Brazilian manufacturers
Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Sousa, Filipe Lage de - 2014
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010464937
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Water reuse in Brazilian manufacturing firms
Féres, José; Reynaud, Arnaud; Thomas, Alban - 2015
This paper examines the factors influencing water reuse in manufacturing firms and analyzes whether the structure of intake water demand differs between firms that adopt water reuse practices and those which do not. To this purpose, we estimate a two-stage econometric model based on a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012053287
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Analyzing the environmental performance of the Brazilian industrial sector
Motta, Ronaldo Serôa da - 2015
This study will analyze the determinants of environmental performance in the Brazilian industrial sector. It uses a database conducted by the Brazilian National Confederation of Industries inquiring about questions on environmental management over 325 medium and large firms referred to the year...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012023788
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Measuring and explaining total factor productivity growth : Brazilian manufacturing in the seventies
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar - 2015
In the first part of the paper, we use translog indexes to measure the rate of total factor productivity growth (TFPG) in 80 different sectors of the Brazilian manufacturing industry in the 1970-80 period. In the second part, we conduct both correlation and regression analyses to identify...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940314
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Technical efficiency in Brazilian manufacturing establishments : results for 1970 and 1980
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar - 2015
The objective of this paper is to identify variables that influenced the efficiency level of Brazilian manufacturing establishments in 1970 and 1980. Efficiency is defined as the ratio of actual to best practice output, which is measured using deterministic translog frontier production...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011940326
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Technological progress and diffusion : decomposing total factor productivity growth in Brazilian manufacturing
Pinheiro, Armando Castelar - 2015
In this paper we estimate the rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth in 80 sectors of Brazilian manufacturing industry and use production functions to decompose TFP growth into technological progress and changes in efficiency. We find that growth of TFP was caused, in most sectors, by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011941376
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The post 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization and the performance of large manufacturing firms : productivity, market share and profits
Hay, Donald A. - 2015
This paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalization on the total factor productivity, market share and profits of a sample of 349 large manufacturing firms. A panel data production function analysis for the period 1986/94 indicates very large total factor productivity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011997236
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A note on foreign direct investment (FDI) and industrial competitiveness in Brazil
Bonelli, Régis - 2015
competitiveness in Brazil. It provides an analysis of the two way relationship which can exist in theory between FDI and … competitiveness, as well as some empirical evidence from Brazil in the 1990s. Inflows of FDI to Brazil have increased significantly … in Brazil. When looking at disaggregated data within manufacturing which links the growth of competitiveness (whether …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011998192
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The role of industrial sector in the Brazilian territorial reconfiguration : new expressions for XXI century national dilemmas
Monteiro Neto, Aristides; Silva, Raphael de Oliveira; … - 2022
In this article, we discuss the current pattern of territorial reconfiguration of the Brazilian industry, its current forms, and motivations in order to problematize some of the most significant challenges of the current regional issue. We have brought new evidence of how it keeps...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014429283