identified. We apply our model to Brazil and use agricultural shocks to local economic activity (coffee and overall agricultural …

sectors in Brazil and in Latin America more generally. …

The international literature on minimum wage greatly lacks empirical evidence from developing countries. Brazil …

instrumental variables earnings model on data from Brazil show that child labor has a large negative impact on adult earnings for …

Brazil, the worlds largest coffee exporter, encouraged efforts in the 1960s to form the International Coffee Agreement … in producing countries. This paper analyzes the effects of rent seeking in Brazil. The Brazilian Institute of Coffee (IBC …

This paper aims at discussing critically Pérsio Arida’s proposal of adopting currency convertibility in Brazil. Arida … (2003a, 2003b, 2004) points out that currency convertibility would make for lower interest rates in Brazil, as well as for … well as exchange rate volatility in Brazil. We argue in this paper that this proposal does not lead necessarily either to …

determine the relative position and the dynamics of the destitution state of the individual. Due to the scarcity of panel … surveys in Brazil, it was used a pseudo-panel obtained from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD …/IBGE) database in this study. With these data, the state permanence and the state transience probabilities were estimated in a Markov …