This paper analyses the inverted-U hypothesis between income inequality and economic growth to the cities of northeast of Brazil from 1970 to 1991. To it was used econometric analysis of cross section and panel data to the information from Atlas de Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. The results...

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...

We use data from the period 2009-15 to estimate the impact of the public policy aiming to decrease the taxes paid by companies over their payroll. The objective of this program, so called Less Taxes on the Payroll ("Desoneração da Folha de Pagamento"), was to burst the employment in the firms...

We use data from the period 2009-15 to estimate the impact of the public policy aiming to decrease the taxes paid by companies over their payroll. The objective of this program, so called Less Taxes on the Payroll ("Desoneração da Folha de Pagamento"), was to burst the employment in the firms...

This study estimates demand elasticities for staple foods in Brazil taking into account the differences in demand behaviour across urban and rural areas. We analyze microdata from 2002/2003 household expenditure survey (POF), conducted by IBGE. The methodology adopted in demand estimation is...

Applying econometric models on panel data, we analyzed the possible relation between the increase in broadband Internet access density in Brazil and the GDP and GDP per capita growth. Broadband access densities, GDP, GDP per capita and the population education level data were disaggregated at...

This paper presents a discussion on several econometric models for estimating parametric models in the presence of spatial dependence with cross-section data. Initially, we cover models for spatial dependence with spatial lags of the response variable and spatial lags of the residues, and...

In this paper, by using cross-section regression analysis, we studied the economic and human development factors affecting the diffusion of the broadband internet access at the level of municipalities in Brazil. As economic development indicators we used the GDP per capita, GDP and how it is...