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state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, we estimate that extortion, theft, and robberies decrease by at least 41.6% following COVID …
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The new Coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), which began in late 2019 in China, lead to a health and economic crisis of significant proportions. The decrease in economic activity in order to prevent further spread of the disease affected all economic sectors, resulting in the unprecedented loss of...
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wave of COVID-19 infections in Brazil. We use the concentration curve, the concentration index, and a decomposition …
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Brazil and the remote work observed in the country. For this, at first, the teleworking potential is estimated based on the …
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This paper sets out to analyze gender behavior in the Brazilian labor market as a result of the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. It focuses on job destruction and creation during the lockdown and implementation of social distancing throughout 2020. To do so, it uses the New General...
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showed to be qualitatively sufficient to anticipate the size of the pandemic risk that later materialized in Brazil. …
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measure intergenerational educational and occupational mobility in Brazil. The SWTS database contains information on youths …
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to fill this gap for the case of Brazil, the paper revisits household survey data from 1996 to 2015 with propensity score … progress towards gender wage equality in Brazil will emerge spontaneously from the private sector or whether specific policy is …
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Recent technological advancements and the digitization of most financial services have transformed the way by which individuals deal with their financial transactions. It has also affected the focus of financial institutions’ investments, as well as the sectors’ market dynamic, with the...
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The ANPEC exam has been an important instrument for the Brazilian academic economics since the 1970s. Nowadays, practically all graduate program in economics uses it as selection mechanism. This research has tabulated its microdata to produce a picture of what these numbers can reveal about...
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