Recent studies point to commuting as a key element to understand regional dynamics and urban integration. This study propose three ideal types (Max Weber) of commuting flows based on its relations with social processes which impact urban structure by affecting residence and job locations in...

This work presents the construction of a local price index for the Federal District Real Estate market. The main objective of this local price index is to help build a real estate observatory, using data from the real estate transaction from the Secretariat of Finance of the Federal District....

The article discusses the trends in Brazilian industry in the 1990’s. It shows some important changes that are going on the manufacturing sector, such as the loss of employment in the main industrial regions (Southeast) and the increasing number of jobs offered in the less developed ones...

In spite of the relation between industrial specialisation and geographic concentration of industries, these are two different concepts. After clarifying both, the aim of this paper is to analyze the structural change on Portuguese manufacturing industry from two perspectives: the specialisation...

Spanish Abstract: En este artículo se analiza la migración de retorno en el Estado de México, desde la perspectiva personal y del hogar. Mediante la Encuesta sobre Migración de Mexiquenses a Estados Unidos (EMMEU, 2009), y una serie de entrevistas a profundidad se ha podido detectar en los...

Recent studies point to commuting as a key element to understand regional dynamics and urban integration. This study propose three ideal types (Max Weber) of commuting flows based on its relations with social processes which impact urban structure by affecting residence and job locations in...

This work presents the construction of a local price index for the Federal District Real Estate market. The main objective of this local price index is to help build a real estate observatory, using data from the real estate transaction from the Secretariat of Finance of the Federal District....

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...

This paper seeks to analyze labor earnings differences between workers with bachelor's degree and those with secondary education taking into account the heterogeneity across fields of study in the former group. Labor earnings differentials are decomposed to quantify the contribution of three...