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The starting point of this paper is the interrelation between learning, innovation, regional and local development in … the 'Knowledge or Learning Economy'. Along with the traditional economic factors that have been considered in the … environment and the characteristics of some information and knowledge intensive firms, supported by the Regional Center for …
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The article analyzes the impact on education of young people of 15 to 18 years old who work, in Brazil in the last decade, using data from the national household survey (PNAD). We compare the school delay of those who never worked with those who work more than a year and the impact of additional...
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Os microempreendedores formam um grupo muito heterogêneo no Brasil, mas sobre-representados na pobreza. Este artigo examina, com base nos dados da Pesquisa da Economia Informal e Urbana de 1997 e 2003, os determinantes dos rendimentos dos microempreendedores com intuito de contribuir para o...
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In this article, we analyze the swings sources of demand for labor force, according to the level of schooling, in the Brazilian manufacturing industry, in the 1994-2008 period of time. We consider two theories to explain these swings sources: the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem (H-O) and the ability...
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This article analyzes the relationship between types of family arrangements and work quality regarding type of occupation, time in the occupation, status of occupation (whether under the Brazilian labor law or not) and income of the population aged 25 to 64 years in the Brazilian urban job...
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One of the main social economic problems observed in the majority of countries, in particularly, in the less developed countries, is the high level of income inequality and poverty. In Brazil, these facts are especially important because our country presents one of the worst income distributions...
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There is important evidence of a recent upsurge of so-called residual inequality, i.e. wage inequality that cannot be explained by workers? observable attributes, such as schooling. The main purpose of this article is to review the intuitions and results of some of the main theoretical models...
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This paper assesses the extent of educational inequality and inequity in Brazil, using data obtained from the international study PISA 2000 prepared by the OECD. We provide some descriptive indices of inequality, as well as a measure of inequity (understood as inequality of educational...
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One of the main socioeconomic problems observed in most countries – particularly in less developed countries – is the presence of high income inequality and poverty level. Several empirical works have attempted to analyze their major determinants as well as their effect on some indicators...
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