Browsing FGV EPGE - Seminários de Pesquisa Econômica by Author "Menezes Filho, Naércio Aquino"
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Avaliando o PLANFOR : o programa do sindicato dos metalúrgicos de São Paulo
2002-04-18Este trabalho faz uma avaliação de impacto do programa de treinamento conduzido pelo Sindicato dos Metalúrgicos de São Paulo. Trata-se de um estudo não experimental que pretende contribuir para o acúmulo de conhecimento ... -
Demand and supply: price elasticities and corporate performance in the UK
1998-04-30This paper investigates the relationship between consumer demand and corporate performance in several consumer industries in the UK, using two independent datasets. It uses data on consumer expenditures and the retail price ... -
Os determinantes da duração do desemprego em São Paulo
2000-10-19This paper examines the determinants of unemployment duration in the metropolitan region of São Paulo in 1997. The descriptive statistics show that around 52% of the unemployment lived with their parents, that their average ... -
The distribution of male wages in Brazil
1999-07-29This paper examines the evolution of wage inequality in Brazil in the 1980s and 1990s . It tries to investigate the role played by changing economic returns to education and to experience over this period together with the ... -
Does money in schools matter? evaluating the effects of FUNDEF on wages and test scores in Brazil
2004-06-17In this paper we investigate the effects of the 1998 reform in the funding of fundamental education in Brazil (FUNDEF) on the relative wages of public school teachers and on the relative proficiency of public school pupils. ... -
Os efeitos da redução da jornada de trabalho de 48 para 44 horas semanais sobre o mercado de trabalho no Brasil
2001-06The reduction of standard weekly working hours from the curreilt leveI of 44 hours to 40 hours has recently been proposed by the main central unions as a way to create jobs and reduce unemployment in Brazil. The idea, known ... -
O poder dos sindicatos e a lucratividade das firmas no Reino Unido
1998-10-22In t-his paper an attempt is made to assess the behaviour of the rate of return on sales of unionised firms as compared to the non-unionised ones in the late 1980s in the U.K. The main aim is to examine what has happened ... -
Rent-sharing in Brazil: using trade liberalization as a natural experiment
2000-09-28This paper examines the extent of rent-sharing in Brazil, between 1988 and 1995, combining two different data sets: annual industrial surveys (pIA) and annual household surveys (PNADs). The aim is to use the trade ...
