Human capital models imply that both the distribution of education and returns to education affect earnings inequality. Decomposition of these 'quantity' and 'price' components have been important in understanding changes in earnings inequality in developed and developing countries. This paper...

Financing innovation is not emphasized by neo-schumpeterian approach, despite Schumpeter (1982) himself having already emphasized the relevance of the bank system in the economic development. In this article we analyze financing innovation in Brazil through recent empirical evidence from...

The aim of this paper is to investigate the funding of university-industry interactions in Brazil from DGP/CNPQ. The responses of 2,726 groups of interactive research relating to Census 2008 were analyzed. Analysis shows that the most frequent remuneration were the transfer of financial and...

This article evaluates the relationship between scientific and technological production and the degree of human development in Brazil, on a municipal level. The variables used can be divided into seven groups: human development index, urban infrastructure, cultural infrastructure, incentives...

Technological change and innovation is now playing an important role in economic growth. In this framework, investigations towards financial system role in financing technological change and innovation are important contributions to comprehend sources of economic growth. Financing innovation...

Although many studies addressed poverty issues, very few of then did analyze the transient or persistent nature of this phenomenon. Encouraged by this lack of dynamic poverty analyses, the objective of this paper is to evaluate which features determine the relative position and the dynamics of...

This paper aims at contributing to the debate on economic aspects of criminality in Belo Horizonte. This study presents a theoretical and empirical review on the subject and also investigates on the information about the occupation of victims and indicted individuals in order to verify whether...

In this paper, we intend to identify some factors underlying the different rates of participation of self-employed workers in Brazilian municipalities. In contrast with previous analysis, our study is sensitive to the spatial dimension of self-employment in Brazil. Relying on geo-referenced data...