We provide evidence about the determinants of the wage structures of developing countries by examining the case of Brazil. Our specific question is whether Brazil’s dramatic income and wage differentials can be explained by the division of rents between firms and their employees, unlike in...

We provide evidence about the determinants of the wage structures of developing countries by examining the case of Brazil. Our specific question is whether Brazil's dramatic income and wage differentials can be explained by the division of rents between firms and their employees, unlike in...

Qual o impacto da desigualdade salarial intra-rma sobre o desempenho dos trabalhadores e, consequentemente, sobre o desempenho das empresas? N~ao ha na literatura teorica ou emprica um consenso sobre tal efeito. Uma parte da literatura, focada principalmente sobre o papel dos incentivos,...

The aim of this work is to test the Gibrat's Law hypothesis for Brazilian firms. Gibrat''s Law establishes that firm growth is a random walk, it means that the probability of a given proportionale change in size during a specified period is the same for all firms in a given industry. This work...

O período de tempo no qual uma empresa opera em um determinado mercado indica seu histórico de desempenho nos negócios. As evidências disponíveis sugerem que empresas maduras apresentam menores probabilidades de saída de mercado e de falência. A relação entre idade das empresas e...

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

How much do developing countries benefit from foreign investment? We contribute to this question by comparing the employment and wage practices of foreign and domestic firms in Brazil, using detailed matched firm-worker panel data. In order to control for unobserved worker differences, we...

Theory and evidence are ambiguous about the effect of within-firm wage inequality on firm performance. This paper tests empirically this relationship drawing on detailed Brazilian matched employer-employee panel data, considering alternative measures of inequality and performance and different...