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We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...
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attributes: gender, experience and education. To relate the social indicators of employment/inequality to macroeconomic variables … shocks and social indicators. The main results of this work are that the effect of the identified shocks: i) is statistically …) have small but statistically significant effects on indicators relating to workers; iii) have heterogeneous effects by …
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This paper presents an international literature review on qualified labor shortage and summarizes recent evidence on this topic in the context of Brazilian labor markets. An interpretation is provided on the extent of this problem in Brazil in the 2000s. It does not seem to be the case that a...
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This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from the 2010 Census. Labor earnings inequality is remarkable among Brazilian workers with a bachelor's degree. Evidence indicates that heterogeneous returns across fields of study...
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results: aggregate productivity growth was only 2.2%, lower positive contribution from the formal sector, negative direct …
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Any discussion on professional training and labor market insertion must take into account the social vulnerability of the Brazilian population. Close to 16 million families fall within the criteria of Bolsa Familia`s Single Registry. Seventy-two (72) million people live in these families, but...
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evaluate the impact of business-to-business e-commerce on the productivity of German firms. …
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The study aims to map the human capital profile involved with the biotechnology in Brazil. We used descriptive statistical analysis. The database was set up exclusively for this study starting from information of the innovation website of the Brazilian Ministry of the Science and Technology. The...
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whole. We measure segregation using four different indicators for skill level: educational attainment, wages, job tenure …
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