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The objective of this paper is to combine three topics - international migration, poverty, and pandemics - in the …. First of all, I discuss international migration; second, I emphasize the role of geography, development, and poverty; and … migration, I point to the importance of internal regulation of the Brazilian emigration process and bilateral agreements. In the …
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English Abstract: Migration as a concept is difficult to define because of its varied and changeable social, economic … or collective potential of social groups. For some groups of population, migration has been the result of the structural … difficulties in countries as human capital drain or family and social fabric weakening. Colombia has seen migration waves since the …
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possibility of reaching below replacement fertility. Studies on new trends in Brazilian out migration are considered relevant for …
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This paper estimates the effect of non-Iberian immigration to Brazil based on historical and contemporary microdata. The historical base encompasses over 1.7 million immigrant records; the contemporary has more than 165 million records. The estimation of immigrant numeracy suggest that Stolz,...
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This paper estimates the effect of non-Iberian immigration to Brazil based on historical and contemporary microdata. The historical base encompasses over 1.7 million immigrant records; the contemporary has more than 165 million records. The estimation of immigrant numeracy suggest that Stolz,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011942278
The main aim of this paper was to analyse the existence of Kuznets hypothesis for the Brazilian Municipalities from 1991 to 2000. The empirical strategy was based on three steps. The first one consists in testing the quantile specification proposed by Racine (2006). The second was to use the...
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Several studies have attempted to reveal the relations between growth and income distribution in Brazil. Nevertheless, the theme continues in the light of current theoretical controversies and inequalities still existing. The aim of this study is to examine to what extent changes in the profile...
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This essay inquires into the characteristics and historical possibilities of a Developmental State built on democracy, in opposition to the East Asian Developmental State historical model. After a brief introduction, this model and the capitalism development the underdeveloped peoples crave are...
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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...
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This essay explores the reduction of socioeconomic inequality observed during the economic growth in Brazil after 2004. Their results show a significant reduction of economic inequality in terms of current income of the families, explained by the creation of jobs, the income public policy and...
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