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Crisis, What Crisis? Patterns of Adaptation in European Labor Markets
Eichhorst, Werner; Feil, Michael; Marx, Paul - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...
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Os efeitos da redução da jornada de trabalho de 48 para 44 horas semanais em 1988
Gonzaga, Gustavo; Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino; … - 2002
The reduction of standard weekly working time from the current level of 44 hours to 40 hours has recently been proposed by the main central unions as a way to create jobs and reduce unemployment in Brazil. The idea, known as work-sharing, is that the reduction in average hours per worker would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011807286
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LIBERALIZAÇÃO COMERCIAL E DEMANDA POR TRABALHO QUALIFICADO NO BRASIL
Giovannetti, Bruno; Menezes-Filho, Naércio Aquino - Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em … - 2005
last decade. Thus, presenting evidences that relative demand for skill increased overall in the period, it seeks to explain … this movement, at least in part. For this, we test the hypothesis of skill biased technological changes in an environment … hypothesis of skill biased technological changes explains, at least in part, the shift in the relative demand for skilled labor. …
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MUDANÇAS INSTITUCIONAIS E A INFORMALIDADE NO MERCADO DE TRABALHO BRASILEIRO: SIMULANDO OS IMPACTOS DE POLÍTICAS
Ulyssea, Gabriel - Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em … - 2004
In the last 15 years, informality in the Brazilian labor market has been rising steadily, having stabilized in the last two years around 60% of the economically active population. The magnitude of this phenomenon is impressive not only for its intensity but also for its persistence, leading to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004968602
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As fontes da determinação da escolaridade dos trabalhadores da indústria de transformação brasileira
Pauli, Rafael Camargo de; Nakabashi, Luciano; Sampaio, … - Departamento de Economia, Universidade Federal do Paraná - 2010
In this article, we analyze the swings sources of demand for labor force, according to the level of schooling, in the Brazilian manufacturing industry, in the 1994-2008 period of time. We consider two theories to explain these swings sources: the Heckscher-Ohlin Theorem (H-O) and the ability...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008504194
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IMPOSTO SOBRE TRABALHO E SEU IMPACTO NOS MERCADOS DE TRABALHO FORMAL E INFORMAL
Ulyssea, Gabriel; Reis, Maurício Cortez - Associação dos Centros de Pós-Graduação em … - 2005
This paper aims to analyze the effects of payroll taxes on the determination of the degree of informality and the main indicators of the Brazilian labor market, considering both aggregate and disaggregate indicators by qualification level. For that purpose, a two- sector model is developed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001549
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Os efeitos da redução da jornada de trabalho de 48 para 44 horas semanais em 1988
Gonzaga, Gustavo; Filho, Naércio Aquino Menezes; José … - Departamento de Economia, Pontifícia Universidade … - 2002
The reduction of standard weekly working time from the current level of 44 hours to 40 hours has recently been proposed by the main central unions as a way to create jobs and reduce unemployment in Brazil. The idea, known as work-sharing, is that the reduction in average hours per worker would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744470
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Um mapa setorial do emprego e dos salários a partir dos dados da Rais
Amitrano, Claudio Roberto - 2015
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
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Crescimento da economia e mercado de trabalho no Brasil
Baltar, Paulo - 2015
In an international framework favourable to the performance of the Brazilian economy, the increase in the minimum wage and the formalization of labour contracts boosted GDP growth, increasing consumption growth with the incorporation of part of the low-income people to the market. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372240
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O estigma da perda de um emprego formal no Brasil
Corseuil, Carlos Henrique L.; Dias, Rodrigo F.; Foguel, … - 2009
We investigate if the labor market stigmatizes fired workers, by comparing their trajectories with individuals who lost their jobs after the establishments they used to work closed down. Using RAIS data for formal workers, we find that being fired significantly reduces the chances of finding a...
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