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The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and 2007, formal employment expanded significantly in the country. This paper examines whether these city-level changes in labor inspections could be a significant factor...
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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of …
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the fluctuation of unemployment. The literature measures the importance of a flow such as the proportion of the variance … of long-term or stationary unemployment that is explained by the fluctuation of this component. This result is useful for … analyzing short-term unemployment when long-term unemployment is a good proxy for short-term unemployment. Our contribution was …
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the fluctuation of unemployment. The literature measures the importance of a flow such as the proportion of the variance … of long-term or stationary unemployment that is explained by the fluctuation of this component. This result is useful for … analyzing short-term unemployment when long-term unemployment is a good proxy for short-term unemployment. Our contribution was …
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Schooling attendance improved significantly in Brazil, mainly for primary schooling. Attendance levels however are still deficient at secondary level; where dropout levels also worries policy makers. This paper aims to estimate the wage premium for secondary education attained by young workers...
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This paper aims to evaluate the introduction of Brazilian regional and occupational wage floors on labor market performance. We focus on two out of five states that implemented such policy intervention, which are Paraná and São Paulo. In each region, we have analyzed data for three distinct...
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The main goal of this paper is to analyze the increase of Brazilian formal employment growth rate in the last decade. The evidence suggests that this acceleration is due to a reversal in the trend of the average number of employees per establishment. More detailed investigations show evidence...
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This paper aims to evaluate the impact of a tax incentive program targeted to small business (SIMPLES) on employment growth. The evaluation is conducted for two distinct periods, namely 1997 when the program was first implemented and 1999 when the eligibility rule was modified in order to...
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Labor inspection procedures in Brazil went through important changes in several dimensions from late 90s to mid 2000, improving the procedures efficiency. In the subsequent period formal employmentexpanded significantly. The aim of this paper is to identify whether the first fact influenced the...
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