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On March, 2011 the signing of the Treaty of Assunción by Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay celebrated its 20th anniversary. Preferential trade agreements that create joint economic spaces might be seen as useful tools to promote economic development. This article discusses to what extent...
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attempts to explain the recent increase in the share of formal employment through the dynamics of hiring strategies of firms … employment rises as the unemployment rate falls and that the wage gap between formal and informal workers increases, at least at …
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This study explores three issues related to the job market in the Brazilian information and communication technologies (ICT) industry, considering both industrial and service segments. First of all, evolution of job structure in the sector is evaluated since 1998. Second, the intensity of...
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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 … effect was counterbalanced by a higher initial employment level in the most recent firms cohort. …
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Information) to generate statistics for employment in the tourism industries at the subnational level. Overall data for employment … an illustrative case, comparative statistics of employment and characteristics of workers and establishments in the … these databases as an important source of employment statistics for the tourism industries. …
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This article brings new inputs to debate outsourcing in Brazil, using a new methodology based on administrative records. With this methodology, it is possible to identify 4.02 million outsourced workers, corresponding to 11.7% of total employees in the urban private sector. Moreover, with this...
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This article brings new inputs to debate outsourcing in Brazil, using a new methodology based on administrative records. With this methodology, it is possible to identify 4.02 million outsourced workers, corresponding to 11.7% of total employees in the urban private sector. Moreover, with this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011818820
Pagamento"), was to burst the employment in the firms benefited by the tax cut. Overall our econometric results show no … employment effect of this program. …
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This article presents the results of an impact assessment of the Employment and Income Generation Program (Proger) - a … loan program to small e medium sized firms conducted by the Brazilian government - on formal employment, payroll and … results show positive and statistically significant impacts on employment, payroll and unjustified dismissals for most …
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This paper regards the regulation of intellectual property, services and investments in some preferential trade agreements. We analyze the systematization of intellectual property, services and investment rules contained in treaties signed by the United States, European Union, India and China in...
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