This article analyses the effects of recent transformations in the Brazilian banking system on the level and … composition of employment in this sector. The authors indicate the measures taken by banks in order to adjust to low levels of … inflation and their consequences for employment, the turnover, and the spatial distribution of personnel. They also discuss the …

local bank. We evaluate the impact of a large number of branch closures on firm operations, wages and employment, and … economic output in Brazil from 2011 to 2021. We adopt a difference-in-differences strategy with staggered treatment timing … of formal employment, and a compression in the real wage distribution. Micro firms, trade and service firms, and …

This paper analyses employment transitions and workers' skills in Brazil using a random sample from the universe of … findings confirm that workers who use non-routine cognitive skills intensively experience the highest employment growth rates … labour market. Overall, there have been signs of routine-biased technological change and employment polarization since the …

reduces the employment level, the share of employment in the population, the hourly wage, the interindustry wage premium, and … the share of informal employment. The industry-level results indicate that a rise in import penetration from either China … or the rest of the world (ROW) reduced the employment level, hourly wage, and share of informal employment while …

targeted at small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Brazil, to investigate the role of credit constraints on SMEs performance … distribution, entry and exit, and employment. By exploiting the fact that firms can only use the available credit with suppliers … formal employment between 6.7% and 10.3%. This increase in employment is driven by the increase in the average size of firms …

This paper uses the sudden surge in Chinese competition faced by Brazil's manufacturers in the 2000s to revisit the … findings from the literature on how productivity, innovation, and employment were impacted by the Great Liberalizationa period … employment effects. The results reinforce some of the key findings of the earlier literature, notably the positive …