This paper analyses the relationship between household cost of living and wages in the Brazilian metropolitan regions … and Azzoni, 2013), we tested if the elasticity between wages and living cost is unitary. In other words, if workers who … live in the most expensive regions receive a full compensation through wages for living costs differences. We used micro …

in a business group hierarchy affects workers' wages. To acknowledge that ownership linkages are not onedirectional, we … a business group on workers' wages. This result is in line with a monitoring-based theory of business group hierarchies …