the impact of Brazil's 1987-1994 trade liberalization on labor force participation of women. To identify the causal effect …

find that labor market conditions have a strong effect on homicides. We exploit the 1990s trade liberalization in Brazil as …

Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in …

. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector. We estimate the model using data from Brazil, and use counterfactual … unambiguously decreases informality in the tradable sector, but has ambiguous effects on aggregate informality. (2) The productivity … when informality is repressed. (4) Repressing informality increases productivity, but at the expense of employment and …

understand the link between institutions and an economy's productivity distribution …

improve the business conditions in one country have negative productivity and welfare effects on the trading partner. Second …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th century. We show that municipalities that received settlements …

This paper uses a unique new data set on nearly a thousand manufacturing firms in Brazil and India to investigate the … education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …