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the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence … indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study and mismatches between the individuals' occupations and their fields … of study help to explain part of the labor earnings disparities among workers with tertiary education in Brazil. Also …
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of this type of qualification in their occupations in Brazil. Two types of vocational education are investigated here … and the 2010 Brazilian Classification of Occupations, indicators of required qualification can be imputed to each employed … qualification seems to have negative consequences on labor earnings, and that workers with vocational education earn more than those …
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We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...
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In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results. First, we find a decreasing urban wage premium over the...
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This paper discusses about the impact of the highway concession policy on regional income and dynamics. It gathers information from the 2010 Population census and a federal highway concession, the Autopista Fluminense, to examine the attenuation of per capita income in the potential commuting...
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The study aims to map the human capital profile involved with the biotechnology in Brazil. We used descriptive statistical analysis. The database was set up exclusively for this study starting from information of the innovation website of the Brazilian Ministry of the Science and Technology. The...
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This study investigates the pattern of overeducation among Brazilian graduates between 1980 and 2010. Making use of information from the last four population censuses, estimates show that changes in workers’ demographic characteristics and shifts in the workers’ distribution across fields of...
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less years of schooling than they obtained. This paper aims to investigate the relationship between the probability of …
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that require less than their level of education, according to the Brazilian Classification of Occupations (Brasil, 2010 …
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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on the earnings returns to schooling and the consequences of … complete 4 years of schooling. The results also indicate that earnings inequality would be reduced and the average labor … earnings would be increased a lot if workers with low educated parents have the same return to schooling that those workers …
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