The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and for devising labor policies that aim at dampening...

O presente estudo calcula as elasticidades da pobreza em relação ao crescimento econômico e à desigualdade de renda para os estados e municípios brasileiros através de um método de estimação não paramétrico, visto em Horowitz (2012) e Ai & Chen (2003), e usado por Figueiredo e Laurini...

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar a evolução da desigualdade injusta brasileira entre os anos de 1995 e 2009 utilizando uma abordagem não- paramétrica na estimação da função de rendimentos. Para tanto, adotou-se uma estratégia empírica baseada em quatro passos- i) empregou-se um...

This paper investigates if the dynamic behavior of unemployment rates from Brazil and six metropolitan areas is more consistent with the natural rate hypothesis or the hypothesis of hysteresis. Initially, we use the procedures proposed by Perron and Yabu (2009) Kejriwal and Perron (2010) to...

The important debate about how economic fluctuations affect employment reallocation in heterogeneous businesses is currently open in the literature. This debate is relevant as it matters for the understanding of the labor market dynamics, and for devising labor policies that aim at dampening...

The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high...

This paper analyses the inverted-U hypothesis between income inequality and economic growth to the cities of northeast of Brazil from 1970 to 1991. To it was used econometric analysis of cross section and panel data to the information from Atlas de Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. The results...