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    • Bright minds, big rent: gentrification and the rising returns to skill 

      Edlund, Lena; Machado, Cecilia; Sviatchi, Michaela
      2015-11
      In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households ...
    • International competition and labor market adjustment 

      Pessoa, João Paulo
      2018-02-15
      How does welfare change in the short- and long-run when trade integration takes place under imperfect labor markets? Even if consumers benefit from lower prices, there can be significant welfare losses from increases in ...
    • Mind the wage gap by internet 

      Sousa, Filipe Lage de; Pinheiro, Maurício Canêdo; Almeida, Gabriel Richter de
      2015
      Literature on labor economics shows the existence of wage gap between internet users and non-users. Moreover, wage gap is wider in developing countries than developed world. This paper investigates whether internet users ...
    • Quanto vale a pena fazer um doutorado? Um Estudo sobre as carreiras de egressos de programas de doutorado no Brasil 

      Lima, Diego de Faveri Pereira; Goldszmidt, Rafael Guilherme Burstein
      2015
      O presente estudo descreve a atuação profissional de egressos de programas de doutorado no Brasil, titulados entre 2010 e 2012, e estima os diferenciais de rendimento associados a este nível de formação. Estes diferenciais, ...
    • The real effects of bank-firm relationships 

      Behr, Patrick Gottfried; Norden, Lars; Oliveira, Raquel de Freitas
      2018-10-31
      We investigate whether and how bank relationships affect real economic activity. We base our analysis on matched credit and labor data from Brazilian firms during 2005-2014. We document that firms with more bank relationships ...