The empirical determinants of happiness in Brazil. This paper investigates the role that economic variables play in the determination of happiness, using reported happiness as a proxy to individual well-being. It uses microdata extracted from the World Values Survey for five countries,...

We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare results to Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and Troske (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. Returns to education and experience in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other...