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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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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
This paper estimates the effect of non-Iberian immigration to Brazil based on historical and contemporary microdata …-Iberian immigration. The first counterfactual is built upon the regression of income on the percentages of each ancestral group in … municipalities. The second, results from the regression of individual wages on the surname ancestry workers. The coefficients are …
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This paper estimates the effect of non-Iberian immigration to Brazil based on historical and contemporary microdata …-Iberian immigration. The first counterfactual is built upon the regression of income on the percentages of each ancestral group in … municipalities. The second, results from the regression of individual wages on the surname ancestry workers. The coefficients are …
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This paper estimates the local employment multiplier for Brazil (2000-2010). The methodology is based on Moretti (2010) and Moretti and Thulin (2012) who estimated these multipliers for the U.S. and Sweden. We have estimated the impacts of changes in employment in the tradables sectors on the...
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This article describes the distribution of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Brazil according to meso-regions of the 2000 and 2010 population censuses. Changes in the geographic distribution of these professionals over this period are presented, as well as the...
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Interstate migration in Brazil represents almost 40% of total internal migration. This paper investigates the economic causes of interstate migration flow. We apply Crozet's model the interaction of increasing returns and transportation cost on the regional dynamics and migration flow in Brazil....
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The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...
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