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...

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...

During the nineties, the skilled workers unemployment rate decreased relative to semiskilled and unskilled. At the same time the skilled earnings increased relative to semi-skilled workers, although it slight decreased compared to unskilled. The objective of this paper is to analyze the patterns...

O objetivo deste artigo é testar empiricamente a relação entre salários e esforço para a indústria brasileira de construção civil. Tal relação é advogada por modelos de salário eficiência, mais especificamente, as versões Shirking Model e Labor Discipline Model. Como a variável...

O objetivo deste artigo é testar empiricamente a relação entre salários e esforço para a indústria brasileira de construção civil. Tal relação é advogada por modelos de salário eficiência, mais especificamente, as versões Shirking Model e Labor Discipline Model. Como a variável...

This paper discusses the evolution of public employment data among different countries since the end of the nineteenth century and through the twentieth century, with special emphasis to the period after the Second World War (after 1945). The description of the international socio-economic...

This paper discusses the evolution of public employment data among different countries since the end of the nineteenth century and through the twentieth century, with special emphasis to the period after the Second World War (after 1945). The description of the international socio-economic...

Spanish Abstract: En la sociedad colombiana contemporánea, al igual que sucede en muchos países del mundo, los-as jóvenes deben enfrentarse a una concepción del mundo del trabajo que ha cambiado radicalmente. En lugar de una rutina estable, de una carrera predecible, de la adhesión a una...

This paper examines the importance of geographic distance for the occurrence of knowledge flows between countries and how this importance has been changing over time. The main channels for knowledge flows are presented and an econometric analysis conducted with a focus on knowledge flows...

The aim of this paper is to evaluate the regional impacts of the National Family Farming Program (PRONAF in the Portuguese acronym) between 2000 and 2010, using the econometric instrumental panel data models with fixed effects. The approach combined impact assessments at various regional scales...