The paper presents a first global investigation of the longer-term inequality implications of COVID-19 by examining the effect of school closures on the ability of children from different countries and backgrounds to engage in continued learning throughout the pandemic, and their implications...

This paper presents simulations of the potential effect of COVID-19-related school closures on schooling and learning outcomes. It considers four scenarios-varying in both the duration of school closures and the effectiveness of any mitigation strategies being deployed by governments. Using data...

This paper presents updated simulation results of the potential effects of COVID-19-related school closures on learning outcomes globally. The simulation, which updates and extends prior work by Azevedo, Hasan et al. (2021) and Azevedo (2020), examines potential learning losses as the pandemic...

This study decomposes some labour earnings inequality measures for Brazil for the period 1984-2005. Through this decomposition we analyse the contributions of three components: a) quantity, which is associated with observable (productive) characteristics of workers; b) price, which measures the...

This paper presents empirical evidence on the determinants of labour market earnings for males and females in the slums of Rio de Janeiro. The data used is from a survey of 1,704 households at 51 slums from the city of Rio de Janeiro, augmented with contextual information from the 2000 census as...

We combine state-level fiscal data with household survey data to assess the links between sub-national fiscal policy and income inequality in Brazil over the period 1995-2011. The results indicate that a tighter fiscal stance at the sub-national level is not associated with a deterioration in...

Este texto para discussão pretende resumir brevemente a literatura existente sobre a análise do tempo de abertura de negócios no Estado do Rio de Janeiro. Os principais resultados de cada trabalho são apresentados e constata-se em todos eles a inclinação de um elevado tempo para abertura...