Browsing by Keyword "Wage inequality"

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    • Capital humano e desigualdade salarial no Brasil: uma análise de decomposição para o período 1995-2014 

      Silva, Vitor Hugo Miro Couto; França, João Mário Santos de; Pinho Neto, Valdemar Rodrigues de
      2016-09-01
      This paper investigates factors that may explain the reduction in wage inequality in Brazil between 1995 and 2014 using a decomposition method suggested by Yun (2006). This method is a synthesis of two another methods, a ...

    • Os determinantes da mudança da desigualdade de salários no setor formal do Brasil 

      Arabage, Amanda Cappellazzo
      2013-05-27
      Neste trabalho estudamos a evolução da desigualdade de salários no mercado formal de trabalho no Brasil utilizando dados da Relação Anual de Informações Sociais (RAIS) no período entre 1994 e 2009. Utilizamos a variância ...

    • Essays in labor economics using Brazilian data 

      Arabage, Amanda Cappellazzo
      2018-05-21
      This thesis is composed of three essays in applied microeconomics. In all essays, we investigate different aspects related to the Brazilian formal labor market using data from the Relação Anual de Informações Sociais - ...

    • Labor earnings dynamics in post-stabilization Brazil 

      Arabage, Amanda Cappellazzo; Souza, André Portela Fernandes de
      2015-06-15
      This paper analyzes both the levels and evolution of wage inequality in the Brazilian formal labor market using administrative data from the Brazilian Ministry of Labor (RAIS) from 1994 to 2009. After the covariance structure ...

    • Occupational tasks and changes in the wage structure 

      Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas
      2012-09-12
      This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s ...

    • Unconditional quantile regressions 

      Firpo, Sergio Pinheiro; Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas
      2009-05
      We propose a new regression method to evaluate the impact of changes in the distribution of the explanatory variables on quantiles of the unconditional (marginal) distribution of an outcome variable. The proposed method ...

    • Wage inequality and trade liberalization : evidence from Argentina 

      Sanguinetti, Pablo
      2000-11
      Wage inequality has increased substantially in Argentina during the nineties. At the same time during this decade Argentina has gone through a rapid and deep process of trade liberalization. In this paper we try to associate ...