The paper analyzes the spatial distribution of the Leisure Industry in Brazil through the formation of clusters and their association with an indicator of municipal development for the year 2010. São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro presented the most specialized Leisure Industry and are the most...

This paper sets out a formal model to account for the net effect of an exchange rate devaluation on both income elasticities of demand for export and imports and, consequently, on the long-term balance-of-payments constrained growth rate. Such model shows how the exchange rate impacts on the...

Este artigo apresenta e analisa o processo de interiorização e criação de novas centralidades urbanas. Baseado nas Regiões de Influência das Cidades definidas pelo IBGE em 1993 e 2007, de projeções populacionais e de impactos regionais dos investimentos do Programa de Aceleração do...

The dominance of the 'growth fetish' ideology has much contributed to lure societies into believing that people's value judgements are unnecessary for a better life and social justice. The theme 'human values' became the central research topic for the United Nations Development Programme Human...

type="main" xml:lang="es" <title type="main">Resumen</title> <p>En este artículo investigamos las propiedades de muestra finitas del estadístico de la prueba I de Moran para la autocorrelación espacial en modelos tobit como los sugeridos por Kelejian y Prucha. Con esto llenamos un vacío en la literatura teórica mediante...</p>

In this note, we compare three test statistics that have been suggested to assess the presence of spatial error autocorrelation in probit models. We highlight the differences between the tests proposed by Pinkse and Slade (J Econom 85(1):125–254, <CitationRef CitationID="CR13">1998</CitationRef>), Pinkse (Asymptotics of the Moran test...</citationref>

In most developing nations, formal workers tend to be more experienced, more educated, and earn more than informal workers. These facts are often interpreted as evidence that low-skill workers face barriers to entry into the formal sector. Yet, there exists little direct evidence that such...