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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330902
of per capita income in the potential commuting tolled. The discussion deducing that there is a high volume of regional … commuting that potentially use the highway and not charged. Otherwise, there was a small portion of the population tariffed, how … had lower incomes and charge with "gratuity" commuting. In addition, this study illustrate the impact and reflexes of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012146807
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670387
of per capita income in the potential commuting tolled. The discussion deducing that there is a high volume of regional … commuting that potentially use the highway and not charged. Otherwise, there was a small portion of the population tariffed, how … had lower incomes and charge with "gratuity" commuting. In addition, this study illustrate the impact and reflexes of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012019035
The economic transformations occurred in the new frontier of Brazilian agribusiness, Matopiba, especially with relation to employment opportunities in the agribusiness, have motivated migratory flow to this region. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the income differentials between...
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The economic transformations occurred in the new frontier of Brazilian agribusiness, Matopiba, especially with relation to employment opportunities in the agribusiness, have motivated migratory flow to this region. Thus, the objective of this study is to evaluate the income differentials between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012052930
We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372144
The aim of this paper is to make a sectoral mapping of the labor market between 1995 and 2010, especially from the employment and wage data from the Annual Report of Social Information (Rais) and the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) of the Ministry of Labour and Employment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372220
The aim of this paper is to evaluate the evolution of wage inequality components in Brazil, specifically the evolution of the return to unobserved skills, in the period of 2003 to 2013. We use a method similar to that proposed by Cortes e Hidalgo-Pérez (2015), based on a hypothesis of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013269278
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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