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flexibility/rigidity of those rates is a determinant of unemployment, it seems reasonable to suspect that long-discovered systemic … differences in unemployment across groups with different degrees of schooling and experience (and, perhaps, across countries as …
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The empirical evidence related to the public-private wage gap in Brazil indicates that workers from the Brazilian public sector earn, on average, higher wages than the private sector ones. This paper surveys three literatures related to this topic. First, it surveys the main studies related to...
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returns to education and racial discrimination. -- Gender discrimination ; racial discrimination ; quantile regression …
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Since 2006, the law has changed in a way that the expected wage of the employers has to be at least the double of the minimum wage. The employers who pay less than this amount to their employees are more likely to be audited by the tax authority. According to my hypothesis this change has...
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This study investigates the wage gap between the public and private sectors in Brazil. The analysis is carried out with 2009 microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and it takes account its complex sample design. The main contribution of this study is the...
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reasons: different preferences towards job characteristics, or perhaps to lower discrimination against women in the public … sector due to strict wage grids and hiring and promotional practices. Lower discrimination may manifest itself in the gender … regarding the size of the differences in these measures between the two sectors. This study examines whether discrimination is …
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We provide a detailed descriptive analysis of the long-term effects of the 50 percent public sector wage increase initiated by the government in 2002 in order to improve the relative situation of public sector workers. The aim of this policy was to attract high quality workers to the public...
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