This paper studies the impact of an increase in the enforcement of labor regulations on unemployment and inequality …, using city level data from Brazil. We find that stricter enforcement (affecting the payment of mandated benefits to formal … workers) leads to: higher unemployment, less income inequality, a higher proportion of formal employment, and a lower formal …

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess …

This paper is the first to use program administrative data from Brazil's National Employment System (SINE) to assess …

The frequency of labor inspections in Brazil increased in the late 1990s. In the years that followed, between 2003 and …

This paper estimates the marginal treatment effect of formality on wages for Brazil at the individual level leveraging …

Tracking individual workers across employers and industries after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows that … with product demand at Brazil's export destinations and real exchange rate components. Worker effects are important …

destruction in Brazil. Firm age is a more important determinant of job creation in Brazil than firm size; young firms and start … firms create relatively more stable jobs in Brazil. …