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Analysing the effects of tax benefit reforms on income distribution: a decomposition approach

Bargain, Olivier; Callan, Tim - 2007

counterfactual simulations. We start by decomposing changes in inequality/poverty indices into three contributions: reforms of the …

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Economic well-being and poverty among the elderly: an analysis based on a collective consumption model

Cherchye, Laurens; de Rock, Bram; Vermeulen, Frederic - 2008

poverty among the elderly. The model focuses on individual preferences, a consumption technology that captures the economies … scale and a wife's share that is increasing in total expenditures. We further calculated poverty rates by means of the … collective consumption model. Collective poverty rates of widows and widowers turn out to be slightly lower than traditional ones …

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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 …

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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...

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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. …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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