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Household Income As a Determinant of Child Labor and School Enrollment in Brazil; Evidence From a Social Security Reform
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
This paper studies the effects of household income on labor participation and school enrollment of children aged 10 to 14 in Brazil using a social security reform as a source of exogenous variation in household income. Estimates imply that the gap between actual and full school enrollment was...
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Inflation Targeting and the Crisis; An Empirical Assessment
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
perception of risk by markets. We also find some weak evidence that IT countries did better on unemployment rates and advanced IT …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008519500
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Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility; Evidence From Brazil
Filho, Irineu E. Carvalho; Estevão, Marcello M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012
unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the … could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states …
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