Brazil has built over the decades, with great effort and sacrifice, a dynamic, integrated manufacturing sector that has helped the country grow and become one of the world’s largest economies. Recently, though, basic indicators, such as the performance of output and employment, have suggested...

The empirical literature on the impact of unions on wages has stressed two major conclusions. Firstly, unionised workers earn a wage premium when compared to comparable nonunionised workers. Secondly, the dispersion of wages within the union sector is lower than in the nonunion sector. We...

This paper investigates whether technological innovation and exports affect the size and productivity of manufacturing firms in Brazil. In order to do so, we employ a new dataset and try to control for self-selection, a problem that is particularly important for the issue under examination....