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  Beyond Oaxaca-Blinder: accounting for differences in household income distributions across countries

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2002

  This paper examines household income distributions between Brazil, the United States, and Mexico.
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  Labor turnover and labor legislation in Brazil

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  This paper describes Brazilian labour legislation, focussing on job security provisions; reviews recent evidence on labour turnover; and investigates the effects of changes in legislation in 1988 and 2001.
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  Conditional cash transfers, schooling and child labor: micro-simulating Bolsa Escola

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil's Bolsa Escola scheme was established in 2001 and provides a means-tested cash transfer to poor households, on the condition that children in the household attend school.
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  Inequality of outcomes and inequality of opportunities in Brazil

  Departamento de Economia, Pontificía Universidade Católica do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2003

  This paper seeks to determine what part of observed inequality in Brazil is due to ‘circumstances’ and what part is due to ‘personal efforts’.
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  Employment and productivity in Brazil in the nineties

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2002

  This paper presents stylised facts on the behaviour of Brazil’s metropolitan labour market during the 1990s; explains this behaviour using an economic model of supply and demand for labour; and describes the evolution of the marginal productivity of labour in the industrial and service sectors and of the qualification structure in the Brazilian labour market.
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  Regional or educational disparities?: a counterfactual exercise

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2004

  This paper investigates differences in income between the poor Northeast and rich Southeast regions of Brazil, and between the states of Ceará and São Paulo within these regions, and attempts to assess how much of the income disparity can be explained by differences in schooling levels of the resident populations.It analyses data from the National Household Survey for 1999, using a method of st
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  Do borrowing constraints decrease intergenerational mobility?: evidence from Brazil

  Getulio Vargas Foundation, Brazil, 2003

  Theory suggests that borrowing constraints may influence intergenerational economic mobility because families that are unable to borrow only have access to their own resources to fund investments such as children’s education.
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  Lula plus one: Brazil after one year of PT Government

  Catholic Fund for Overseas Development, 2003

  A year after the leader of Brazil’s Workers Party (PT), Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva took office, this paper explores what he has achieved in terms of economic policy, debt burden, social policy and foreign policy.The paper points out that one year on, some of the shine has worn off that victory.
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  Political institutions, policymaking processes and policy outcomes in Brazil

  2004

  This paper examines policymaking processes in Brazil. The purpose of this paper is to explain the outer features of public policies, such as stability vs. volatility, flexibility vs. rigidity, coordination vs. coherence, decisiveness vs. resoluteness.
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  The impact of cash transfers on child labor and school attendance in Brazil

  Instituto de Estudos do Trabalho e Sociedade, Brazil, 2003

  Brazil’s Bolsa Escola schemes involve paying cash grants to poor parents on the condition that their children attend school.

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