The main purpose of this article is to analyze the capacity of Brazilian economy sectors to transfer their productivity gains over the productive chain from 2000 to 2009. Therefore, it has been used structural decomposition technique and a methodology that deals with the variation of labor...

In this paper we seek to understand the recent dynamics of the Brazilian housing market, which experienced a significant growth in recent years. In particular, we assess the effects of aggregate productivity and monetary policy shocks on housing market variables. Moreover, we also investigate...

This paper investigates the decrease in wage inequality among working age men in the Brazilian formal labor market by decomposing it into its permanent and transitory components. The permanent component refers to workers' productivity characteristics such as education and abilities, whereas the...

This article analyses the effect of labor turnover on the productivity of Brazilian manufacturing firms between 1996 and 2013. We based our analysis on a theory of learning by doing, where turnover harms productivity by restricting the efficiency gains achieved by workers when they accumulate...

In 2013, 7.32% of the Brazilian population, or almost 15 million people, declared that they had some disability. Based on empirical evidence, this study sought to answer the following three questions: 1) Are men with disabilities paid less in the Brazilian labor market? 2) If so, is this...

The article aims to analyze the effects of the Brazilian Simplified Tax Regime (Simples Nacional) on the longevity of manufacturing microenterprises, contributing to the current debate on the expansion of the program. Based on the RAIS (Relação Anual de Informações Sociais) microdata...

The paper examines the possibility of a water market in Brazil. The US market, probably the oldest and most well-documented one, is initially analyzed. In the American West, over the past 140 years the so-called "water rights" can be sold or rented. However, mainly due to high transaction costs,...

This paper analyzes the price dynamics of Brazilian cities between 1995 and 2012 to identify stylized facts about price convergence, the reversal speed of deviations between relative prices and purchasing power parity (PPP). There is evidence of a strong reduction in the absolute dispersion of...

This is a pioneering study of Brazil of the importance of labor pooling to explain industrial agglomeration in the Northeast of Brazil, employing firm-level microdata. We applied the theoretical model proposed by Krugman (1991) (labor market pooling model) with the adaptations by Overman and...