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The Gini coefficient of labor earnings in Brazil fell by nearly a fifth between 1995 and 2012, from 0.50 to 0.41. The …
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According to Becker's (1957) theory of taste-based employer discrimination, pure economic rents are necessary for … larger declines in the conditional racial wage gap between 1991 and 2000. As predicted by theory, the initial wage gap and …
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We develop a search model of informal labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, intra-firm bargaining with imperfect substitutability across types of workers, and a comprehensive set of labor regulations, including minimum wage. Stylized facts associated with the informal sector, such as...
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disparities between groups. We measure the effects of these policies on racial pay differences in Brazil. We find that nonwhites … allocative costs of race-based preferences may be relatively large in Brazil. …
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-account workers in Brazil. We find that at least 65 percent of those workers appear to discount the future at rates superior to those …
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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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employment in Brazil, Mexico and South Africa, distinguishing between dependent and independent workers. For each country, we use … small at all levels in Brazil. …
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This paper provides new evidence on the wage gap between informal and formal salary workers in South Africa, Brazil and …
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employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to …
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This paper offers a model to explain how computer technology has changed the labor market. It demonstrates that wage differentials between computer users and non-users are consistent with the fact that computers are first introduced in high-wage jobs because of cost efficiency. Furthermore,...
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