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This paper examines the spatial interaction of neighboring cities over their employment cycles. The cycles of …-similar employment cycles, but neighboring cities with similar racial compositions tend to have less-similar employment cycles …
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The changes that are taking place recently in the Brazilian economy raise some questions about its future. The goal of this paper is to analyze the differences in the productive structure in the Brazilian economy and five macro regions for the years of 1985, 1990, and 1995, using some...
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This paper aims at describing the regional configuration of 1959 Brazil’s productive structure through the estimation of an Inter-State Input-Output system. The estimated matrix is the oldest of this kind for Brazil. It can, hence, be an important tool for the study of the regional productive...
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to the crisis impact on employment, focusing on R&D sector as revealing the endogenous growth generating potential at …
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This paper provides new evidence on the consequences of foetal exposure to high levels of pollution for the risk of stillbirth, and for the long-term health and labour market outcomes of those that survive. Variation in in utero exposure comes from a persistent weather system that affected...
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After more than two decades of inflation targeting in the world, it is important to evaluate if the adoption of this regime in a relevant developing country contributed to the creation of a better environment for the process of entrepreneurs' expectations formation. Brazil is part of an...
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This paper examines the effect of entry of large foreign retailers on local employment at the city level. Using a panel … data for the period 2000-2006, we find that entry of large retailers largely increases employment in wholesale and retail … sector and other related sector in the year of entry. The positive effect on employment in wholesale and retail sector …
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Our paper analyzed the impact and causal relation of outbound Chinese FDI on growth, employment and export performance … the impact of Chinese outbound FDI on employment and export are insignificant. However, the impact of FDI on growth is … refined dynamic panel model indicates that Chinese FDI does not cause GDP, exports and employment while the results of reverse …
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globalization on female employment in 33 OECD countries, using a pseudo micro panel on 110’000 persons from the World Values Survey … information exchange, increases employment probabilities of women. However, when accounting for sub-national regional differences …) increases female employment in a cross-country fashion. …
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Traditional official definition of ‘work’ in developing countries excludes large number of activities that are predominantly performed by women. Naturally official Female Labour Force Participation Rate is quite low in such countries. Women who are officially in the labourforce must...
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