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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 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …
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This paper addresses different patterns of early work in Brazil, proposing a typology based both in quantitative and qualitative data. We first distinguish four categories of early work in the basis of age started to work and hours worked weekly. Applying linear regressions to quantitative data,...
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Life conditions for teachers working in basic education are better than those of the average Brazilian working … throughout the country. When teachers' average salaries equal the average of the population with tertiary education, it would …
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the income. The literature appears that among the determinant of this disparity, besides historical factors, the education … variable education and your impacts on the income of the work. The adopted model will be a hybrid of the considered square … minima proposed by Hoffmann and Scampini (1996) and Mincer function, trying to capture the effects of the variable education …
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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Publicly provided education is both an important public expenditure and a relevant in-kind transfer, often to the … poorest households. This paper compares three methods to value education services and their distributive impact. The methods … are: i) The first method is cost of provision, according to which education is worth what it costs the state to provide it …
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's education system. These propositions take the form of the National System of Education (Sistema Nacional de Educação), which … relates to a long-standing reformist tradition. The main focus is the way through which the National System of Education would … affect state and municipal autonomy in the governance of education systems. Thus, we describe the main similarities and …
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management and adoption of good practices in municipal education, which influence the decisions and behavior of managers in …
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In this article, we analyze the role of work and study activities in the daily lives of young people aged 18 to 24, who live in low-income families in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The dream of continuing to study or resuming the trajectory of studies is present as a central element in the...
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Providing access to education for low-income populations is essential to reduce inequalities and promote social … inclusion. Although the spatial dimension of inequalities in access to education has received attention in recent studies, there … public transport, the study investigates education- -related social exclusion in the intra-urban scale as well as across …
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