This article measures the evolution of segregation by skill level among firms in the Brazilian formal labor market from 1996 to 2005. We define segregation as firms having a labor force composition by skill different from the labor market as a whole. We measure segregation using four different...

This article measures the evolution of segregation by skill level among firms in the Brazilian formal labor market from 1996 to 2005. We define segregation as firms having a labor force composition by skill different from the labor market as a whole. We measure segregation using four different...

Este trabalho procura contribuir com os estudos microeconométricos da indústria brasileira por meio de uma abordagem alternativa para o cálculo do estoque de capital das firmas deste setor. De fato, a informação acerca desta variável esbarra em dois empecilhos: sua ausência no...

The last decade witnessed a change in the view of the economic literature on smallfirms. If before they were perceived as inefficient in terms of productivity and wages,once operating in a suboptimum scale, in the last decade they turned out to be facedas agents of technological change, crucial...

This study contains a literature review about the services sector, with an emphasis onthe following themes: productivity and employment, innovation and internationaltrade. The services sector has historically been marginalized in the economics literature.Its activities had already been...

This paper aims to identify the Research and Development (R&D) spillovers insidethe manufacturing industries from the São Paulo State. Moreover, it intends tocharacterize these spillovers through both geographical and technological dimensions.In other words, the intention is to verify if the...

This paper tries to quantify some macroeconomic consequences of the Brazilian oil sector investments. The main conclusion is the following: these investments incentivize other investments in the supply chain of the oil sector.

Este texto estima os retornos educacionais e diferenciais raciais na distribuição de salários das mulheres no Brasil, usando regressão quantílica com correção semiparamétrica para viés de seleção amostral. As estimativas mostram que os retornos educacionais são elevados e que não...

Este texto examina se existe um efeito de teto de vidro na ascensão profissional das mulheres nas grandes empresas da indústria de transformação do Brasil. Em particular, verifica-se se o gênero importa no tempo necessário para se obter uma promoção para uma posição gerencial. Embora...