exports may not be a random process. The results confirm the self-selection hypothesis and show that starting to export yields … productivity, which reinforces the importance of accounting for firm export status to study the evolution of productivity …

This note examines in detail Brazil?s export performance over the past 15 years, focusing not only on growth and …

This paper examines whether export participation matters for job training. The paper draws on longitudinal worker … uses industry-specific exchange rate movements to generate exogenous variation in export status at the firm-level. The … findings indicate that export participation tends to increase the share of workers who receive technical upgrading. The results …

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to …

, Brazil. Infrastructure and social investments have been made in the community through a government program, with community …

This study constructs three indices to measure how well Brazil's young people are surviving their transition to … be if the state were to invest more. The hope is that the methodology can be used in Brazil as it has been used in the …

economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … Brazil the authors cannot reject the null hypothesis of constant returns to scale. They also find evidence of economies of …

wage distribution in Brazil during the 1988-95 trade liberalization. Unlike in other Latin American countries, trade …

The authors describe the main trends of Brazil's fiscal policy during the past decade and analyze (1) the ability to … Brazil. But the relationship is nonlinear: the impact of the primary balance on spreads is amplified as the debt ratio … disappointing growth performance in Brazil during the past decade …