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This paper aims at contributing to the debate on economic aspects of criminality in Belo Horizonte. This study presents a theoretical and empirical review on the subject and also investigates on the information about the occupation of victims and indicted individuals in order to verify whether...
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We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...
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This article uses a new dataset about some "cidades satelites" in the Distrito Federal State. WE use these data to estimate a mincer equation and infer about spatial discrimination in the Distrito Federal labor market. We find severe wage punishment against individuals that live in Taguatinga...
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Revised: 2006-05.-- Published as an article in: The Review of Economics and Statistics, 2004, vol. 86, issue 4, pp. 1034-1036.
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We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003965496
% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our …
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This paper analyzes the Brazilian case, the transient conditions of employment levels and income distribution in the country, using micro data from the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) to assess the effects of macroeconomic...
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the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence … of study help to explain part of the labor earnings disparities among workers with tertiary education in Brazil. Also … earnings distribution. …
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This exercise contributes to the literature that relates macroeconomic cycle with the labor market, estimating an Favar model to Brazil with four variables - degree of utilization, inflation rate, Selic rate and real exchange rate - and a latent variable that summarizes the state of the labor...
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This paper investigates the impact of parental education on the earnings returns to schooling and the consequences of … earnings differential between workers whose parents had at least 8 years of education and those workers whose parents did not … complete 4 years of schooling. The results also indicate that earnings inequality would be reduced and the average labor …
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