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The late 1990s in Brazil are a period characterized by a large increase in foreign direct investment inflows (and outflows). This process motivates the present study about job flows in domestic and foreign firms. Although foreign firms tend to be considered more `footloose’ than domestic...
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We study the determinants of the public-private earnings gap for different levels of schooling of Brazilian workers …. First, using the current earnings as the variable of interest, we estimate that less educated people receive higher earnings … in the public sector (i.e., the earnings gap is favorable to the public sector). On the other hand, for workers with …
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The reduction of standard weekly working time from the current level of 44 hours to 40 hours has recently been proposed by the main central unions as a way to create jobs and reduce unemployment in Brazil. The idea, known as work-sharing, is that the reduction in average hours per worker would...
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Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic … occupation, weekly working time and other factors on earnings, taking into account as well the differences among 12 regions of … income is also analyzed. Regarding the specification of the earnings equations, the paper shows that it is wrong to assume …
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Using retrospective simulations, we examine whether educational expansions in the past could have reduced earnings …
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This paper discusses about the impact of the highway concession policy on regional income and dynamics. It gathers information from the 2010 Population census and a federal highway concession, the Autopista Fluminense, to examine the attenuation of per capita income in the potential commuting...
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This article brings new inputs to debate outsourcing in Brazil, using a new methodology based on administrative records. With this methodology, it is possible to identify 4.02 million outsourced workers, corresponding to 11.7% of total employees in the urban private sector. Moreover, with this...
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This study investigates the effects of changes in firms' performance on wages across occupations from the extractive and transformation sectors of the Brazilian economy, from 2007 to 2013. We rely on a matching panel data of occupations and industries using data from a Brazilian Administrative...
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This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. But, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its existence...
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earnings. To do so, we combine employment information from Rais between 2000 and 2015, with data from other sources for …
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