This article investigates the characteristics of industrial wage determination in Brazil using time series data for 22 manufacturing sectors for 1985-93. The idea is to verify whether changes in sectoral productivity are relevant to explain changes in sectoral nominal wages. First, the results...

The paper investigates the importance of trade unions in collective bargaining in the context of a developing country manufacturing labor market. The findings indicate that wage dispersion is far greater in the unionized sector of Brazilian manufacturing, in contrast to evidence from other...

In an attempt to measure the impact of cultural heritage on growth, this paper matches the definition of culture as a stock with the cultural heritage list provided by UNESCO, as it is a variable that changes at a very low pace. We test the hypothesis on whether the existence of a strong...