In the last 15 years, informality in the Brazilian labor market has been rising steadily, having stabilized in the last two years around 60% of the economically active population. The magnitude of this phenomenon is impressive not only for its intensity but also for its persistence, leading to...

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...

This paper presents a framework that emphasizes the role of supply and demand factors and the interaction of market forces and labor market institutions, developed by Katz and Autor (1999) and called Supply-Demand-Institutions (SDI). We have applied it for the Brazilian case in the years 1992 to...

Job-Schooling mismatch and wages has received too much attention from developed countries researchers. The last two decades has provided a lot of empirical evidences on the incidence of over and under-education across developed countries in different periods, and returns on ORU (over-education,...

Spanish Abstract: La apertura de negocios en el extranjero, sea cual fuere la modalidad de penetración de mercados, a través de la creación de subsidiarias, franquicias, licenciamientos o inclusive a través de mecanismos integradores como las alianzas estratégicas, es una medida eficaz para...

Besides the introduction and the final conclusions, this Discussion Paper has four sections. The first presents the "state of art", that is, the current debate about the long-term financing of the neo-corporatist state capitalism in Brazil. Then it shows the personal and corporate wealth as...