The Effects of the Minimum Wage on Wages, Employment and Prices [PDF]
This paper puts together evidence for the wages, employment and price effects of the minimum wage. This overall picture will help to understand the small employment effects prevalent in the literature in the light of price effects.
Sara lemos
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Shares of the Great War Effort: Brazil’s Returns from the Second World War [PDF]
, 2015 The first half of the twentieth century was a period so fraught with politi-cal, military, and economic tumult that it is easy to see why several of the world’s most powerful (and some not so powerful) nations turned to totalitarian forms of governance ...
Tyktor, Jon
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Livestock Tango: U.S. and Latin America Dance Together, but Who Will Lead?
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study examines the competitiveness between Latin American and U.S. livestock and meat sectors. We employ a computable general equilibrium modeling framework to evaluate two scenarios: coordinated improvements in Latin American productivity, transport efficiency, and market access (Scenario I), and the minimum productivity gains required ...
Taís C. Menezes +2 more
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Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea e a Arte de Contar Histórias: um relato de experiência em ações extensionistas [PDF]
Caminho Aberto: Revista de Extensão do IFSC, 2018 This article reports an experience withthe “Brazilian Contemporary Literature Extension Project and the Art of Storytelling”. The project aimed to encourage the cultural development of the region by promoting new storytellers’ training, among other ...
Maria Regina Andreatto +3 more
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Marginalised youth, violence and policing: a qualitative study in Recife, Brazil [PDF]
, 2019 Few studies have examined the relations between urban marginalised youth and the public security system in the northeast of Brazil. This article addresses this gap in the literature through an examination of youth perceptions of a security programme ...
Cavalcanti, R.P., Cavalcanti, R.P.
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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Does trade liberalization always decrease union bargaining power? [PDF]
The theoretical and empirical literature shows that union wages are more responsive to international import competition than nonunion wages, thus reducing unions bargaining power.
Jorge Saba Arbache
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Temperature Sensitivity and Adaptation of Cereal Yields: Empirical Evidence From Italy
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper investigates the evolving temperature sensitivity and climate adaptation of cereal yields in Italy from 1952 to 2023, using province‐level data for maize, common wheat, and durum wheat. Employing panel data econometric methods, we estimate yield responses to heat exposure, changes in sensitivity over time, and adaptation to climate ...
Paolo Nota +2 more
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Feel empowered to tell your own legal-cultural story
Anamorphosis, 2019 Greta Olson, Dieter Axt
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Inequality, ability to pay and the theories of equal and proportional sacrifices [PDF]
, 2012 Brazil has one of the worst distributions of income in the world. The wealth of the richest 1% of the population is equal to that of the poorest 50%. Brazil has a greater concentration of wealth than ninety-five percent of the countries on which data is ...
Pessôa, Leonel Cesarino
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