The mapping of frequency rates of events is an important tool for guiding public policy. Nevertheless, this problem has not received adequate attention by most researchers. In many studies, the used ratios have serious problems when the geographic units have a small population at risk and when...

This paper examines whether fiscal illusion can help to explain the behavior of federal government expenditures in Brazil during period 1990-2011. The analyses is based on a median voter model that admits that the degree of tax visibility may affect the individual's perception of his tax burden...

This paper measures the public expenditure macroeconomic impacts (public consumption and public investment) in the more important Latin American economies by cointegrated autoregressive vectors. In the long run, public investments affect positively output and private consumption, although it has...

This study aims to review some of the recent approaches to the regional problem in Brazil regarding the Northeast region. The focus of the analysis is more on the instruments predicted than on the diagnostics provided. In general, regional development policies take place through public and/or...

There is a lot of debate about the fiscal impact of the National Treasury loans to BNDES. Given that the interest rates of the loans are mostly indexed to TJLP, there is, in principle, a fiscal cost equal to the difference between TJLP and the market rates of Treasury debt. However, this...

Ein integrativer Politikansatz zielt auf die Verbesserung der Lebensbedingungen in einer Vielzahl von Dimensionen bei Bewahrung der natürlichen Lebensgrundlagen ab, und diese Dimensionen müssen in eine sinnvolle moderne Wohlstandsdefinition einfließen. Ein moderner Wohlstandsbegriff ist viel...

Der vorliegende Aufsatz dokumentiert einerseits das unter Einhaltung des Datenschutzes und der Datensicherheit aufbereitete Datenangebot des Forschungsdatenzentrums der Rentenversicherung (FDZ-RV). Andererseits wird die Entwicklung der Nachfrage nach diesen Daten seit der Gründung des...

This paper argues that currently advanced, aging economies experienced a qualitative change in the role of public education during the process of industrialization. In the early phases of the Industrial Revolution, public education was regarded as a duty that regulated child labor and thereby...

The almost continuous stagnation of the Japanese economy for the past two decades has had an adverse impact on Japanese households from at least three perspectives: A decline in the standard of living, an increase in risks and uncertainties relating to livelihood, employment, old age, etc., and...

This text focuses on long-term unemployment in the German labor market caused by insufficient work skills capabilities and discusses the deficits of the current policy in improving the situation of job seekers who are repeatedly rejected in their efforts to find a job. For both the German...