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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the increase of Brazilian formal employment growth rate in the last decade. The evidence suggests that this acceleration is due to a reversal in the trend of the average number of employees per establishment. More detailed investigations show evidence...
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to have foreseen some lack of soft skills (e.g. leadership) and of other non-education-related attributes (e.g. large … experience) as a sign of general workforce shortage. Vacancies requiring highly specialized skills, as well as those available …
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This article measures the evolution of segregation by skill level among firms in the Brazilian formal labor market from 1996 to 2005. We define segregation as firms having a labor force composition by skill different from the labor market as a whole. We measure segregation using four different...
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Schooling attendance improved significantly in Brazil, mainly for primary schooling. Attendance levels however are still deficient at secondary level; where dropout levels also worries policy makers. This paper aims to estimate the wage premium for secondary education attained by young workers...
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unemployment in the coming years if professionals and the government do not prepare for this scenario. …
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to have foreseen some lack of soft skills (e.g. leadership) and of other non-education-related attributes (e.g. large … experience) as a sign of general workforce shortage. Vacancies requiring highly specialized skills, as well as those available …
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unemployment in the coming years if professionals and the government do not prepare for this scenario. …
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This article measures the evolution of segregation by skill level among firms in the Brazilian formal labor market from 1996 to 2005. We define segregation as firms having a labor force composition by skill different from the labor market as a whole. We measure segregation using four different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003846161