The Bilateral Investment Treats (BITs) are a set of rules that regulate private foreign investment from one country to another. The BITs aim to provide desirable security to foreign investors in order to stimulate the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). This study reviews a series of...

This paper uses a principal-agent model to investigate how public school managers react to government incentives based on previous school performance. Using data from the Brazilian Student Evaluation Exam (Prova Brasil - PB) and the School Census, we estimate a managerial effort function by...

This study presents an approach for computing an input-output matrix for the state of Pernambuco for 1999. This general equilibrium model allows for job, income and added value generation policies, necessary for state development, built on an input-output framework. Based on results from the...

As possíveis heterogeneidades internas, na medida em que são feitos cruzamentos entre os dados populacionais, setoriais-produtivos e de emprego com as regionalizações geoadministrativas do estado. Os dados apresentados mostram uma Paraíba com taxa de crescimento do Produto Interno Bruto...

O estudo analisa os determinantes da alocação de trabalho não agrícola de famílias rurais do Brasil a partir dos dados da PNAD de 2008, confrontando as evidências para a região Nordeste, segundo dados do Projeto Dom Helder Câmara de 2004. Para tanto, foi estimado um modelo de...

This paper analyses the relationship between unemployment and its respective duration on subsequent salary. Despite of being a topic of intense debate in the labour market literature, there is little empirical evidence to support this perspective in the Brazilian labour market. Drawing on data...

This paper analyzes the influence of unemployment on occupational reinsertion, specifically on the wage earned by the workers who transitioned from unemployment to being employed. Using sample data from Monthly Employment Survey (PME, 2000), from Brazil, and quantile regression techniques, this...