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Enforcement of labor regulation, informal labor, and firm performance [PDF]
This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on enforcement of ...
Almeida, Rita, Carneiro, Pedro
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Job-Search Methods and Labor Market Transitions in a Segmented Economy - Some Empirical Evidence From Brazil [PDF]
This paper examines the impact of job search methods on the output of the job search process in a segmented labor market. Theoretical models of job search, like the widely used search approach, generally contain only one parameter capturing all possible ...
Silke Woltermann
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Some Notes on How Land Title Affects Child Labor [PDF]
Secure property rights are considered a key determinant of economic development. However, evaluation of the causal effects of land titling is a difficult task.
Mauricio Jose Serpa Barros de Moura +1 more
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MINIMUM WAGE HIKES AND EMPLOYMENT TRANSITIONS IN BRAZIL [PDF]
This paper investigates the effect of the minimum wage on employment transitions in Brazil and, in particular, on the informal sector transitions.
Fabio Veras Soares
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Improving Social Work in Brazil [PDF]
, 2013 As part of efforts to improve social work provision, INGO EveryChild commissioned Dr Andrew Bilson, Professor of Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, UK, to complete a literature review on the role of social workers in responding to ...
Adriana Pacheco Graham
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FISCAL IMPACTS OF SOCIAL SECURITY REFORM IN BRAZIL [PDF]
This article focuses on the reform of Social Security in Brazil, initiated in 2003. We estimate the fiscal impact of the original government proposal, as well as of the proposal approved at the House of Representatives, and the final format approved at ...
André Portela Souza +3 more
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Libertas, 2012 Este artigo aborda profundas alterações desencadeadas pelo neoliberalismo, as quaisflexibilizam as formas de trabalho tornando-os precários. Como conseqüência dessastransformações este trabalho analisa o desenvolvimento da atividade informal no Brasil ...
Cristóvão de Oliveira Braga
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Behind the Lighthouse Effect [PDF]
A large body of empirical literature indicates that, contrary to predictions from economic theory, wages in the informal sector increase after any minimum wage hike.
Boeri, Tito +2 more
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Libertas, 2012 Este artigo aborda profundas alterações desencadeadas pelo neoliberalismo, as quaisflexibilizam as formas de trabalho tornando-os precários. Como conseqüência dessastransformações este trabalho analisa o desenvolvimento da atividade informal no Brasil ...
Cristovão de Oliveira Braga +1 more
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Biodiversity-based supply chains of the Cerrado biome: opportunities and obstacles [PDF]
, 2019 Agribusiness expansion has led to the conversion of almost half of the Brazilian Cerrado native vegetation area in monoculture, pastures and wood plantations.
Deane de Abreu Sá Diniz, Janaina +3 more
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