O trabalho analisa o diferencial de rendimento, levando em consideração a discriminação entre trabalhadores do meio rural que tem sua ocupação em atividades agrícolas e não agrícolas. Foram utilizadas as informações da Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra Domiciliar – PNAD de 2006. A...

This paper investigates unemployment dynamics in Brazil and in its major metropolitan regions using a fractional integration model. Aspects regarding structural breaks and regime switches are discussed as well. To do that, the methods proposed by Hassler and Meller (2009) and Tsay and Härdle...

The main aim of this paper was to analyse the existence of Kuznets hypothesis for the Brazilian Municipalities from 1991 to 2000. The empirical strategy was based on three steps. The first one consists in testing the quantile specification proposed by Racine (2006). The second was to use the...