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Gerard, François - 2018

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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Job Displacement Insurance and (the Lack of) Consumption-Smoothing

Gerard, François - 2019

matched employee-employer data from Brazil, we find that displaced workers eligible for both UI and SP increase consumption at …

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Informal Labor and the Efficiency Cost of Social Programs : Evidence from the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program

Gerard, François - 2016

comprehensive administrative data to quantify the efficiency cost of increases in potential UI duration in Brazil. We find evidence … cost is also lower in labor markets with higher informality within Brazil. This is because formal reemployment rates are …

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Hysteresis and the Welfare Effect of Corrective Policies : Theory and Evidence from an Energy-Saving Program

Costa, Francisco - 2018

A growing body of evidence documents that policies can affect household behaviors persistently, even if they are no longer in place. This paper studies the importance of such "hysteresis" – the failure of an effect to reverse itself as its underlying cause is reversed – for the welfare...

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