This paper aims at analyzing international trade in labor-intensive sectors in the 2000s, with a special reference to the Brazilian case. Therefore, we use the constant market share analysis to compare several countries’ export performance. It was observed that Asian countries emerged...

The purpose of this work is to analyze the balance-of-payments-constrained growth in Brazil considering Thirwall's Law (1979). To this end, we estimate export and import demand functions using two econometric models: vector error correction and structural state space model for the period of...