This study investigates the effects of changes in firms' performance on wages across occupations from the extractive and transformation sectors of the Brazilian economy, from 2007 to 2013. We rely on a matching panel data of occupations and industries using data from a Brazilian Administrative...

One of the core aims of transportation policies is to facilitate people's access to employment, health and education opportunities as well as cultural and leisure activities. Nonetheless, transport research and policies in Brazil are still largely focused on the challenges of reducing road...

This paper applies the dynamic linear model (DLM) estimated based on the Bayesian approach to project electricity consumption for five Brazilian regional units. The appeal for the use of DLM in the case of energy consumption is due to the fact that in this model the adjustment occurs in the unit...

The focus of this reflection is on how the Brazilian Public Prosecutor, entitled to guaranteeing social and collective rights, can ensure the effectiveness of mental health policies. It also seeks to evaluate to which extent the organization’s strategies may offset the risks of retraction,...

The theme of this text is the construction of state capacities to enable medium and long term investment. The focus was on the relationship between public funds and state financial agents in the formation of institutional arrangements for the financing of economic development, based on a...

The present study examines which changes in financial instruments are recommended or have been made since then to enable expansion of investments with greater private sector participation in project financing. Such changes may be in the legislation of infrastructure debentures, the taxation of...

This text aims to analyze the political dynamics that triggered fundamental changes in the institutional trajectory of PNAE, as well as to differentiate the phases that the program has assumed in its history and the processes of change that occurred between them. In this sense, the effort...