This study investigates the effects of changes in firms' performance on wages across occupations from the extractive … reasons. The results point to the existence of a positive and significant relationship between firm performance and wages, as …

effects on employment level and composition (formal X informal) were identified for both, time series and longitudinal data …. The results show a significant effect of minimum wage on wage distribution. Regarding employment the aggregate effects … points towards a decrease in employment level and also in the formal share of those employed. However the magnitudes are not …

This study investigates the effects of changes in firms' performance on wages across occupations from the extractive … reasons. The results point to the existence of a positive and significant relationship between firm performance and wages, as …

structure of employment and wage. We use data from the manufacturing sector from 1987 to 1998 and found evidences that the … higher trade flow affected the inter-industry employment shares and wage premia. We also found that skilled and unskilled …

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 …

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. …

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 …