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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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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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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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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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Hungary are in a relatively good position in terms of both wage premium and unemployment. Second, analysing the occupation …
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By making use of Duncan & Hoffman's empirical model, the economic returns to overeducation and undereducation are estimated using comparable microdata from the middle of the 2000s for 25 European countries. The estimates confirm some of the main results found in the literature. The wage premium...
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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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Analyses of the Hungarian employment situation are almost always concerned only with the change in the number of the employed, unemployed and inactive, not paying particular attention to the flows between these states. This paper discusses a method of calculating labour market flows in a...
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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the increase of Brazilian formal employment growth rate in the last decade. The evidence suggests that this acceleration is due to a reversal in the trend of the average number of employees per establishment. More detailed investigations show evidence...
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