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...

This paper investigates the sustainability of the fiscal policy in the state of Rio Grande do Sul for two periods: 1970 to 1997 and 1970 to 2003. From 1970 to 2003, the fiscal policy was characterized by primary deficits and the accumulation of public debt. Regardless of the deterioration of its...

This paper examines the wage differentials by gender in the poultry industry from South Region of Brazil. The Relação Anual de Informações Sociais – RAIS of 1998 was used. To measure the difference between the homogeneous workers as education and occupation it was used the Oaxaca’s...

Diversos trabalhos evidenciam que países pobres apresentam população com saúde precária. E a relação entre saúde e pobreza é tratada, na literatura, como sendo possivelmente bi-causal, uma vez que um baixo nível de renda causaria saúde precária, e essa por sua vez, tenderia a causar...

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...