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In an international framework favourable to the performance of the Brazilian economy, the increase in the minimum wage and the formalization of labour contracts boosted GDP growth, increasing consumption growth with the incorporation of part of the low-income people to the market. The global...
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the fluctuation of unemployment. The literature measures the importance of a flow such as the proportion of the variance … of long-term or stationary unemployment that is explained by the fluctuation of this component. This result is useful for … analyzing short-term unemployment when long-term unemployment is a good proxy for short-term unemployment. Our contribution was …
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This article summarizes the studies about the Phillips curve in the Brazilian economy. Overall, the results are very sensitive to the time period, to the proxies adopted, to the econometric approach, and to the frequency and lags allowed to the variables. These results cast some doubts about the...
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and 2017 show that workers who transited from employment to unemployment and were reemployed during a period of strong … periods of high unemployment rates compared to times of better labor market conditions. …
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because they can guide the career of a worker, as well as define priority courses that educational institutions should offer … unemployment in the coming years if professionals and the government do not prepare for this scenario. …
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This paper presents an international literature review on qualified labor shortage and summarizes recent evidence on this topic in the context of Brazilian labor markets. An interpretation is provided on the extent of this problem in Brazil in the 2000s. It does not seem to be the case that a...
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This paper presents the experience of Brazil in using the administrative record rais (Annual Register on Social Information) to generate statistics for employment in the tourism industries at the subnational level. Overall data for employment in the tourism industries are presented for the...
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This paper analyzes the job creation, job destruction and job turnover in the Brazilian private sector between 1997 and 2012 as proposed by Davis and Haltiwanger (1992), with particular attention to fluctuations after the 2008 financial crisis. This crisis is considered an adverse shock in the...
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Brazil is one of thirteen countries in the world whose social insurance system offers a pension based solely upon length of contribution, with no age requirement. This kind of benefit allows contributors to have access to pensions at relatively young ages (here defined as before 60 years old for...
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