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Child Poverty and Family Transfers in Southern Europe
Matsaganis, Manos; Levy, Horacio; Mercader-Prats, Magda; … - 2005
The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain … and Portugal. Using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD, the paper first assesses the distributional impact of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276087
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A Menu of Minimum Wage Variables for Evaluating Wages and Employment Effects : Evidence from Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261832
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Are Wage and Employment Effects Robust to Alternative Minimum Wage Variables?
Lemos, Sara - 2004
A national minimum wage cannot explain variation in wages or employment across regions. Identification of the effect of the minimum wage separately from the effect of other variables on wages or employment requires regional variation. Many minimum wage variables with regional variation have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261833
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage in the Formal and Informal Sectors in Brazil
Lemos, Sara - 2004
sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261848
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The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices
Lemos, Sara - 2004
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects. The data used is an under-explored monthly Brazilian household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261885
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Political Variables as Instruments for the Minimum Wage
Lemos, Sara - 2004
Following the early 1980s apparent consensus, there has been a controversial debate in the literature over the direction of the minimum wage employment effect. Explanations to nonnegative effects range from theoretical to empirical identification and data issues. An explanation, however, that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261887
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Is child labor harmful? The impact of working earlier in life on adult earnings
Emerson, Patrick M.; Souza, André Portela - 2007
instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268200
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Institutional development and colonial heritage within Brazil
Naritomi, Joana; Soares, Rodrigo Reis; Assunção, … - 2009
This paper analyzes the determinants of local institutions and distribution of political power within a constant 'macro-institutional' setting. We show that characteristics of Brazilian municipalities related to institutional quality and distribution of political power are partly inherited from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269117
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The impact of child labor and school quality on academic achievement in Brazil
Bezerra, Márcio Eduardo G.; Kassouf, Ana Lúcia; … - 2009
We analyze the impact of child labor on school achievement using Brazilian school achievement test data from the 2003 Sistema Nacional de Avaliação da Educação Básica (SAEB). We control for the endogeneity of child labor using instrumental variable techniques, where the instrumental...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269166
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The role of skill enhancing trade in Brazil: some evidence from microdata
Araújo, Bruno Cesar; Bogliacino, Francesco; Vivarelli, … - 2009
Brazil was characterised by a marked process of trade liberalisation in the 1990s, resulting in a dramatic increase in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269201