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This paper looks at the impact of investment tax subsidies on the labor market for capital goods workers using data from the 1979-88 Current Population Survey. The results show that investment subsidies drive up the wages of workers who produce capital goods relative to other manufacturing...
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transfer program intended on reducing school dropout rates among children of poor households in Brazil. We show that while this …
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To quantify trade frictions, we examine multi-product exporters. We build a flexible general equilibrium model and estimate market entry costs using Brazilian firm-product-destination data under rich demand and market-access cost shocks. Our estimates show that additional products farther from a...
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significantly in stages of development and resource bases: the United States, China, Brazil, India, and Venezuela. With the …
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international trade into product entry and exit, price changes, and quantity changes for imports by Brazil, the European Union …
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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … Brazil. Our calculations show that the majority of the change occurs from growth in these three economies, and the most from …
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Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that tariff cuts trigger …
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In this paper, we use a linked employer-employee database from Brazil to evaluate the wage effects of trade reform …
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Brazil and the United Kingdom; currency arrangements in Iraq and their reform after the 2003 war; and the relationship …
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Since Brazil's adoption of universal health care in 1988, the country's health care system has consisted of a mix of … in Brazil despite universal coverage using a nationally representative sample of over 48,000 households. Additional …
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