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This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...
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The paper presents an exploratory study aims to verify the potential of public policy conferences for the inclusion of population segments that have been traditionally excluded from political participation processes, such as women, blacks, illiterates, low schooling and less income. The study...
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This study analyzes trends in average commute times in Brazil between 1992 and 2009. It distinguishes between the nine largest metropolitan areas plus the Federal District of Brasília and describes how differences among these areas vary according to income levels and gender. This paper is based...
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This article aims to analyze the evolution of the demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of the municipalities belonging to the Territory South Coast in the state of Bahia, in order to verify whether the inclusion in public programs of the territorial approach use is providing a greater...
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This article analyses the effects of public expenditure on the Bolsa Família Program on the Brazilian crime rate. It covers 10 of the 12 years of the Program's intervention and suggests a unique approach in the national literature. The empirical strategy is based on a balanced regression panel...
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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from each other. The imputed income from publicly provided education reduces inequality by between 3 and 4 Gini points and …
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2000s. Since the recession, there was a rise in inequality and poverty levels and aggregate welfare decreased. While … transfers and unemployment compensation failed to address rising inequality and poverty in any significant way. At the same time …, Social Security contributed to surprisingly large increases in inequality due to the rise in pensions to the well …
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contribute to increase income inequality. …
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In a pay-as-you-go system (SPR) receives contributions from active generations to finance the benefit of inactive people, making their financial balance depend on the proportion of inactive people in the population, a proportion that will double in Brazil in the next 30 years, making it...
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