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The impact of unemployment insurance on reinsertion wages in 2015 in the rural ...

Eficiência técnica dos gastos dos prefeitos nas eleições municipais de 2016

The objective of this study is to verify the efficiency level of campaign expenditures of mayors elected in Brazilian municipalities. To do so, we used data on candidates' expenditures for the 2016 municipal elections. The DEA method was used to obtain the relative efficiencies and efficiency scores of mayors. Twelve mayors were found to be on the frontier of possibilities and that a large number of elected may...

Migration of labor: differential of income between rural and urban trade union ...

The objective of this work was to analyze the income differential of the rural–urban worker in relation to the rural–rural worker and in relation to the urban–urban worker in the Brazilian labor market. Two databases were used, the 2005 and 2015 PNADs (Pesquisa Nacional Por Amostra de Domic ılios). Design/methodology/approach – The methodology is the decomposition approach proposed by Firpo et al. (2007, 2009)....

Diferenciais de desempenho acadêmico dos alunos da UNILAB: uma análise sobre re...

This work aims to detect effects on the quantiles of the distribution of the educational development index (IDE - Educational Development Index) for the case of the Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro Brasileira (UNILAB), allowing to identify and verify whether a given factor has greater effect on students with high, medium or low academic performance. For this purpose, the Quantile Regre...

The effects of occupational mobility on wages of rehabilitated workers in Brazil

This work investigates how occupational mobility, after a professional rehabilitation process, affects the hourly wages of workers who are inserted in the formal job market in the commerce, services and indus try sectors of Brazil. For that purpose, a data panel was used with individual information from the Annual List of Social Information (Relação Anual de Informações Sociais- RAIS) for the period of 2007 to ...

Convergência do PIB agropecuário per capita dos estados

The present work tests the hypothesis of convergence for the deviations of the agricultural GDP of the Brazilian states. In addition, we aim to provide an indicative for the speed with which growth rates of agricultural GDP converge to a steady state. To do so, we use a set of estimates to correct possible biases arising from the economic procedures used. The results obtained as half lives indicate that the dev...

Impacto dos gastos públicos com educação e saúde no crescimento econômico dos e...

This study aims to measure the impact of public spending in the areas of education and health on the economic growth of Brazilian states, for the period 1991 to 2012, a period chosen by the availability of data and which presents the parameter of the literature review addressed. Three different methods were used to capture this analysis: first, using fixed and random effects, second, using econometric technique...

Climate sensitivity and the value of agricultural production in the Brazilian n...

The present work aims to verify the sensitivity of Northeast agricultural production in relation to the changes in precipitation and temperature levels in the Northeast region of Brazil. For that, data from 2006 to 2016 were used for 952 municipalities in the Northeast region, inserted in an econometric methodology for panel data with spatial specification. Through this procedure it was concluded that in the la...

Salários de reinserção no mercado de trabalho brasileiro considerando o Program...

This work provides new estimates of the effect of the Brazilian Unemployment Insurance Program(Programa Seguro-Desemprego)at the national level and disaggregating the dataconsidering urban and rural areas, usingdata from theNational Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional de Amostra Por Domicílio -PNAD)on individuals forthe year 2015. The methodologyapplied for empirical analysisis theRegression Discontinuit...

Uma análise espacial de como o crescimento e a desigualdade afetam a pobreza no...

This research seeks to analyze the impacts of economic growth and income inequality on Brazilian states’ urban and rural poverty, considering the effects of the initial levels of development and inequality. The elasticities of income and inequality of poverty were calculated through a dynamic spatial panel, using an adaptation of the approach developed by Kalwij and Verschoor (2004), and data from 2004 to 2014....