first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors' improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …

We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare … in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, while occupation differentials are similar. The gender … selectivity of Brazilian workers into formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil resemble …

This paper investigates the impact of market-oriented economic reforms on union behaviour in Brazil. Previous work … power has increased in the more competitive environment since the implementation of the reforms in Brazil in the early 1990s …

structure of inter-industry wage differentials remained remarkably stable in Brazil in the face of major shocks. …

This paper explores the evolution of Brazilian wage gaps by gender and skin color over a decade (1996-2006), using the … matching comparison methodology developed by Ñopo (2008). In Brazil, racial wage gaps are more pronounced than those found … along the gender divide, although both noticeably decreased over the course of the last decade. The decomposition results …

The level of violence in the National Hockey League (NHL) reached its highest point in 1987 and has reduced somewhat … information from several databases 1996-2007, the incentives for violence in North American ice hockey are analyzed. We examine …

first piece of evidence on the causal effect of illegality on systemic violence. Brazil has historically been the main world … contracts, or to seek protection from competitors’ improper behaviors. In these contexts, violence is used to enforce previous … increases in violence after prohibition in areas with: (i) higher share of mahogany exports before prohibition; (ii) higher …

for the norm that “women and men shall have the right to equal pay for work of equal value”. We find that the gender wage … are less (not more) satisfied with life in liberal communities where the gender wage gap is smaller. These findings are … consistent with the idea that norms regarding the appropriate relative pay of women compared to men are shaping gender …

The overall gender wage gap fell from .31 to .15 between 1986 and 2003 following the transition to a free market in … fall in the gender wage gap. I test this implication using data from the Hungarian Wage and Earnings Survey covering 1986 … within-firm endowment-adjusted gender wage gap, making use of the fact that I am able to follow firms over time. The …

the seriousness of the problem of gender violence in Brazil and highlights the need to produce more accurate information …In this article, the rape notifications registered in Brazil between 2011 and 2014 were analyzed based on data from the …