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...

Este artigo estuda o papel da política fiscal local no crescimento econômico de cidades. Para este fim, o artigo apresenta um modelo espacial de crescimento econômico com governo, que incorpora as contribuições das teorias do crescimento endógeno e da nova geografia econômica. O modelo _e...