This paper aims to identify the major factors that lead to school abandonment in an urban surrounding, namely, the shantytowns of Fortaleza, northeast Brazil. We use an extensive survey addressing risk factors faced by the population in these neighborhoods, which covered both in-school and...

We evaluate the impact of product market uncertainty on workers wages, addressing the questions: To what extent do firms provide insurance to their workforce, insulating their wages from shocks in product markets? How does the amount of insurance provided vary with firm and worker attributes? We...

We examine the timing of firms operations in a formal model of labor demand. Merging a variety of data sets from Portugal from 1995-2004, we describe temporal patterns of firms demand for labor and estimate production-functions and relative labor-demand equations. The results demonstrate the...

Merging several data sets from Portugal from 1986-2004 with a cross-section on the same firms for 003 that gives information on work timing, we describe temporal patterns of firms’ demand for labor and estimate production functions. The results demonstrate the existence of substitution of...

Using a longitudinal data set covering the period 1987-2000, the authors explore the impact of female employers and gender segregation on wages in Portugal. In the context of Becker?s (1957) taste for discrimination theory, they investigate whether the gender of a firm manager affects gender...