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We estimate the returns to education for women and the racial wage differential among women over the wage distribution in Brazil by using quantile regression with semiparametric correction for sample selection. Our estimates show that the returns to education are high and that they are not...
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This paper analyses two tax reform bills that are being discussed at the Brazilian National Congress, by comparing them and pointing their advantages and drawbacks. Moreover, the paper provides four empirical contributions to the debate: i) neutral rate estimates for the new Goods and Services...
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third is to match private educational expenditures, paid for by students or their parents, with equivalent public education …
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This study seeks to quantify the stock of human capital in the Brazilian economy from 1970 to 2010. We chose to use the IBGE Demographic Census microdata, because, contrary to what is done in other studies - which use fi xed rates of return for all periods and/or regions of the country - this...
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This article investigates the factors associated with income inequalities among a cohort of graduates from Brazilian courses in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) in 2011, over a period of seven years after graduation. It analyses how the social origins of these individuals...
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discrimination against obese and very thin students using PeNSE microdata. Data indicate that students that classify themselves as … rarely or never understand their problems and preoccupations. Econometric model shows that non "normal" students have a … greater chance of suffering FB than "normal" pupils. Male students have greater chance of being frequently discriminated when …
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This study investigates the effects of changes in firms' performance on wages across occupations from the extractive … reasons. The results point to the existence of a positive and significant relationship between firm performance and wages, as …
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This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. But, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its existence...
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