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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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unemployment on inflation seems to present in short term. In the long run, the estimations do not able to detect any impact of … unemployment on the dynamic of inflation. Finally, the structural break marks the relationship between the exchange rate and …
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This article summarizes the studies about the Phillips curve in the Brazilian economy. Overall, the results are very sensitive to the time period, to the proxies adopted, to the econometric approach, and to the frequency and lags allowed to the variables. These results cast some doubts about the...
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and 2017 show that workers who transited from employment to unemployment and were reemployed during a period of strong … periods of high unemployment rates compared to times of better labor market conditions. …
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the fluctuation of unemployment. The literature measures the importance of a flow such as the proportion of the variance … of long-term or stationary unemployment that is explained by the fluctuation of this component. This result is useful for … analyzing short-term unemployment when long-term unemployment is a good proxy for short-term unemployment. Our contribution was …
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Schooling attendance improved significantly in Brazil, mainly for primary schooling. Attendance levels however are still deficient at secondary level; where dropout levels also worries policy makers. This paper aims to estimate the wage premium for secondary education attained by young workers...
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This Discussion Paper aims to analyze the constraints linked to the individual characteristics of the worker, such as gender, race or color, education and age group, as well as characteristics of the labor market, such as, type of employment relationship and sector of economic activity, related...
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The purpose of this paper is to discuss the evolution of labour conditions in public and private security systems in Brazil (and, inside public system, labour conditions in federal and local sub-systems). The number of workers in security services has increased between the 1990?ies and 2000`ies....
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This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a tax incentive program targeted to small business (SIMPLES) on employment growth. The evaluation is conducted for two distinct periods, namely 1997 when the program was first implemented and 1999 when the eligibility rule was modified in order to...
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We investigate if the labor market stigmatizes fired workers, by comparing their trajectories with individuals who lost their jobs after the establishments they used to work closed down. Using RAIS data for formal workers, we find that being fired significantly reduces the chances of finding a...
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