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main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … inequality cannot be reduced by educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372144
Statistics (IBGE) to assess the effects of macroeconomic shocks on employment and income inequality in different social segments … attributes: gender, experience and education. To relate the social indicators of employment/inequality to macroeconomic variables … segment allowing identification of the most vulnerable segments according to the measures of employment, income or inequality …
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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 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011345076
Statistics (IBGE) to assess the effects of macroeconomic shocks on employment and income inequality in different social segments … attributes: gender, experience and education. To relate the social indicators of employment/inequality to macroeconomic variables … segment allowing identification of the most vulnerable segments according to the measures of employment, income or inequality …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406420
main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … inequality cannot be reduced by educational policies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509625
Earnings equations for occupied persons in the state of Minas Gerais are estimated using data from the 2000 Demographic Census of Brazil. Such equations allow us to evaluate the effect of age, gender, schooling, color (race), position in the occupation, weekly working time and other factors on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005685321
In an international framework favourable to the performance of the Brazilian economy, the increase in the minimum wage and the formalization of labour contracts boosted GDP growth, increasing consumption growth with the incorporation of part of the low-income people to the market. The global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011372240
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the origins of a critical process in the North American economy before the subprime crisis, namely, the increasing debt of households. It is argued that causes of this indebtedness are alterations in income distribution (an increased concentration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330587
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the origins of a critical process in the North American economy before the subprime crisis, namely, the increasing debt of households. It is argued that causes of this indebtedness are alterations in income distribution (an increased concentration of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009553730