Infrastructure is traditionally considered a necessary condition for a country's economic development. However, despite so many arguments in favor of the importance of infrastructure for productivity, growth and welfare, the empirical literature on the impact of infrastructure is controversial....

Infrastructure is traditionally considered a necessary condition for a country’s economic development. However, despite so many arguments in favor of the importance of infrastructure for productivity, growth and welfare, the empirical literature on the impact of infrastructure is...

This paper uses meta-analysis to investigate job creation, job destruction, and job reallocation among 62 studies for 35 countries for the period 1963-2007. The analysis aimed to clarify some stylized facts from the literature about the topic such as the differences among industrial and service...

Neste trabalho avaliamos a contribuição de duas formas de discriminação (por gênero e cor) e três tipos de segmentação (espacial, setorial e entre os segmentos formal e informal) no mercado de trabalho para a redução do grau de desigualdade em remuneração do trabalho e em renda per...