with and without wage rigidities. The paper then explores time series data from Argentina, Brazil, Colombia and Mexico to … test for cointegrating relationships corresponding to the patterns predicted by theory. We confirm episodes of expansion of …

, Brazil and Uruguay, relying on high quality matched employer-employee administrative data. Downward nominal wage rigidities … are more important in Uruguay, while wage indexation is dominant in Brazil. Two regime changes are observed during the … more pronounced; and (ii) in Brazil, the introduction of inflation targeting by the Central Bank in 1999 shifts the focal …

. Economic theory suggests that the impact of exchange rates should vary with the degree of exposure to international competition …

This paper investigates the impact of internal migration on child labor outcomes in Brazil. We develop a theoretical … individual-level child-labor analysis with an empirical study of the labor-market impact of internal migration within Brazil. We …