As regards to the abrupt growth of crime, it has been analyzed that, only with Becker's (1968) original findings, is not sufficient to prove this phenomena. Thus, many researches have incorporated new paradigms with the intention to explain the mechanisms which react to crime. New research lines...

The objective of this paper is to investigate the returns to schooling issue for Brazil based on four distinct methodologies, in order to reach a reliable estimate for this type of measurement. The first is based on a simple estimate of the returns to schooling equation by OLS. However,...

This article tests the hypothesis of wage discrimination generated by the place of residence. Furthermore, four alternative explanations for the correlation between wages and place of residence are tested. The econometric results are robust to both a large set of explanatory variables and...

We produced a data set from a survey of a population of convicts in probation. We combined this new data set with an official data set from the Brazilian government to study labor market discrimination faced by ex-convicts. We were interested in estimating two potential effects of...

The preservation of biodiversity is one of the most important matters in environmental economics. But, in general, the relevant trade-offs associated with the preservation option are not well known. The absence of a framework capable of relating theoretical and operational aspects is a...

Basically, foreign direct investments (FDI) determinants may be referred to firms and country characteristics - push factors - or to locational factors - pull factors. Most of theoretical literature relative to multinational enterprises in the last forty years, has emphasized firms advantages,...

This paper verifies the uncovered interest parity to Brazilian economy. The main finding is that under fixed exchange rate the uncovered interesty parity fails. This confirms the theoretical point proposed by Krasker (1980)

This paper shows that the Feldsteins & Horioka (1980) test does not measure capital mobility, but just the variability between domestic and external savings. Furthermore, it concludes that the Coakley, Kulasi & Smith (1996) test for current account solvency, is a necessary, but not sufficient,...