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This paper investigates if the dynamic behavior of unemployment rates from Brazil and six metropolitan areas is more consistent with the natural rate hypothesis or the hypothesis of hysteresis. Initially, we use the procedures proposed by Perron and Yabu (2009) Kejriwal and Perron (2010) to...
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The long run PPP hypothesis was tested considering real effective exchange rate dataset for twenty countries which it was provided by the International Monetary Fund (IMF). By focusing on a nonlinear approach, the study tests IMF monthly dataset for general and specific nonlinearities....
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Conforme Alesina & Angeletos (2005) e Alesina & Glaeser (2004), as preferências por redistribuição de renda variam sistematicamente entre as diversas regiões, promovendo diferenças significativas no tamanho do governo e na composição dos gastos públicos. Nesse contexto, esse artigo...
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This study examines how social circumstances influence the educational performance of students who provide the National Secondary Education Examination (ENEM). Initially, we adopt an approach nonparametric taking Roemer Identification Axiom assuming independence between circumstance and effort....
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This paper assesses the effects of income redistribution policies on "responsibilit -sensitive" fairness levels in major Latin American countries. In doing so, the following items are analyzed- i) the fairness rule described in Bossert (1995),Konow (1996), and Cappelen & Tungodden (2007) and; ii)...
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O presente estudo se propõe a analisar o crescimento pró-pobre no Brasil e suas principais regiões geográficas e estados nos períodos 1987-1993, 1993-1999 e 1999-2007. A metodologia aqui adotada inova na análise na medida em que supera dois problemas comuns na literatura empírica que...
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Following the suggestion of modern egalitarians, the model proposed by Alesina & Angeletos (2005) sets up a fairness rule based on composition of equality, designated by the weights of effort and luck. However, empirical evidence for a set of Latin American countries suggests that, unlike...
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Este estudo pretende avaliar a dinâmica recente do desenvolvimento regional no Brasil. Para tanto, parte-se da premissa que a queda recente nos indicadores de desigualdade de renda estaduais e municipais não denota um processo de convergência de renda. A adoção do conceito de polarização...
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This note proposes a nonparametric estimation method controlled for endogeneity to calculate poverty elasticities for a panel of countries. Results show that usual estimates without control for endogeneity overestimate the growth elasticity of poverty.
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O presente estudo calcula as elasticidades da pobreza em relação ao crescimento econômico e à desigualdade de renda para os estados e municípios brasileiros através de um método de estimação não paramétrico, visto em Horowitz (2012) e Ai & Chen (2003), e usado por Figueiredo e Laurini...
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