... goods. We explore the estimation of the income elasticity of outpatient medicine demand in Brazil. Medicines may compete with expenditures on essential goods, which turns them into a frequent target of public policies worldwide. Design/methodology/approach We used a single data set (the Brazilian...

... in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach Using microdata for 2012–2021 from Brazil’s Continuous National Household Sample Survey, a nationally representative, quarterly rotating labor-force survey, we combine (1) descriptive statistics, (2) year-to-year transition matrices and (3) a staggered difference...

... on prices of similar products in other states to ensure causal identification. Findings The pass-through is neither complete nor immediate for many products, especially industrialized products, confirming the existing evidence for Brazil and other countries. On average, each percentage point...

... in the literature to estimate the elasticity of capital goods credit demand and the first one for Brazil. FINAME is a form of directed credit, where BNDES provides the funds to financial intermediaries (commercial banks and other financial institutions, such as credit cooperatives), also known as second tier...

...Pedro Cavalcanti Gonçalves Ferreira Purpose The paper examines the impact of market power on wages within the context of a developing country, focusing on Brazil. Design/methodology/approach With access to matched employer–employee data from Brazil, we first characterized the evolution...

... of this licence may be seen at http://creativecommons.org/licences/by/4.0/legalcode Smoking Labor market Brazil Heckman model FFL decomposition Ñopo decomposition C21 I12 J24 J31 While there has been a decline in the prevalence of smoking among the Brazilian population in recent...

...Davi Bhering Purpose Brazil’s regional inequality is an important topic due to the large and persistent differences in development between states and the high levels of inequality in the country. These variations in development can potentially render survey data inaccurate since the significance...

...Ana Carolina Borges Marques Ribeiro; Silvio Hong Tiing Tai Purpose This study analyzes the role of migrant networks in the migration flows in relation to the educational level of the migrants and economic growth of the states of origin and destination in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach...

.../value Distance from international markets and a continental geographic size made transport costs in Brazil historically prohibitive: the relevance of non-tradables in the Brazilian economic history. While the theme is not new, it seldom received proper attention in the historiography. Transport...

...) income transfers between groups. Design/methodology/approach First, the expressions for these indicators are derived analytically. Following this, the indicators are applied to labour-market data from Brazil, contrasting the results to others available in the literature. Findings The indicators...