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This paper aims to test the relationship between health and per capita economic growth. Two main causalities were … discussed: if health would directly increase labor productivity or if it would, indirectly, intensify the positive effect of … education on growth. A better health status could decrease the depreciation of human capital, proxied by education. We run two …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. But, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its existence...
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012156549
This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. But, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its existence...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729335
Job-Schooling mismatch and wages has received too much attention from developed countries researchers. The last two …
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We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution … racial wage differentials are higher at higher points of (the conditional) wage distribution. Black women seem to be facing a … in the inequality observed among higher paid women. The paper also reveals that using a probit specification to the …
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The way we define careers and positions in a country (in Brazil and all other) is derived from the conception of State and its role in a historic moment. This study will try to show the state of the art of careers and public positions in federal public service, particularly in the executive...
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This paper aims to investigate earnings losses of workers who become unemployed in Brazil, comparing the results for different stages of the business cycle. Estimates using longitudinal data from the continuous PNAD for the period between 2012 and 2017 show that workers who transited from...
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