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This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study...
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program, access to higher-paying occupations, and the match between skills acquired and occupation requirements. According to …
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In this study, we undertook an econometric analysis aim to forecast the disaggregated series of ICMS administered by … three types of results: i) the evaluation of the forecast; ii) the elasticity of the tax in relation to the relevant … validate the forecast displayed a quite reasonable performance. From about 20 series for each state, approximately 80% register …
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In this Discussion Paper, we test forecasting models for inflation and economic activity with macroeconomic data and economic surveys between January 2002 and October 2019 on a monthly basis. Due to the high dimension nature of the set of explanatory variables, we use machine learning (ML)...
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the purpose of making projections. The different forecast validation criteria calculated for a 12-month horizon showed … very satisfactory results. In all cases, MLD had a forecast error within the 3% range, taken as a reference for the …
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In an international framework favourable to the performance of the Brazilian economy, the increase in the minimum wage and the formalization of labour contracts boosted GDP growth, increasing consumption growth with the incorporation of part of the low-income people to the market. The global...
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...
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We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...
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of occupation in the formal segment, the relative participation of each activity in the total employment rate generated … occupation by tourism in Brazil. The results for the formal segment for the states of Paraná, Goiás and Pará, are also shown. The … paper ends presenting a summary for formal and informal occupation considering the tourism sector in Brazil as a whole and …
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