This text evaluates the effect of the BNDES Finame credit program on the survival of Brazilian firms, separated according to their size, between 2002 and 2016. To this end, we employ the survival analysis method. In this work, we use the microdata bases of RAIS and BNDES financing operations....

Rural workers in Brazil can access old-age pensions five years earlier than urban workers. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether unifying the ages of eligibility among these groups (a measure proposed in the last failed pension reform) makes sense from a comparative perspective, and...

Rural workers in Brazil can access old-age pensions five years earlier than urban workers. The objective of this study is to evaluate whether unifying the ages of eligibility among these groups (a measure proposed in the last failed pension reform) makes sense from a comparative perspective, and...

This text evaluates the effect of the BNDES Finame credit program on the survival of Brazilian firms, separated according to their size, between 2002 and 2016. To this end, we employ the survival analysis method. In this work, we use the microdata bases of RAIS and BNDES financing operations....