... is to estimate the impact of racial and low-income quotas on academic performance of students from public and private universities in Brazil. After 2009, however, some universities incorporated in the admission process the National High School Exam (Exame Nacional do Ensino Médio), which evaluates...

... for Brazilian labour market. Wenjun Liu can be contacted at: liuwynton@hotmail.com Figure 1 The female-to-male ratio of labour participation in Brazil (2000-2010) Figure 2 The female-to-male ratio of earned income in Brazil (2000-2010) However, the educational attainment of women...

... in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach – The empirical analysis is based on estimates through ordinary least squares (OLS), generalized method of moments (GMM), system of equations through GMM (system-GMM), and impulse response functions through vector autoregressive (VAR). Findings...

... and family background yielded by intergenerational mobility models such as Becker-Tomes (1979) model and modified versions of it. Design/methodology/approach – The paper uses data from the 1996 PNAD – a nationally representative household survey in Brazil. The author builds a data set consisting...

... interated to the relative price variables in UK export volume equations. Diogo de Prince can be contacted at: dioted@gmail.com © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2013 Imports Strong hysteresis Panel data models Brazil During the 1980s, the asymmetric behavior of the USA trade deficit...

...Gabriel Caldas Montes; Caroline Cabral Machado Purpose The purpose of this paper is to present a theoretical model and empirically verifies the transmission of monetary policy through the credit channel in Brazil. The study verifies if the monetary policy, the economic activity and the maturity...

... inflation targeting in Brazil, emphasizing the effect of inflation targeting credibility on the business confidence of industrial entrepreneurs. Design/methodology/approach Based on ordinary least square (OLS), generalized method of moments (GMM) and vector autoregression (VAR), the paper provides...

... Limited 2013 Central bank transparency Central bank communication Interest rates Inflation targeting Monetary policy Banking Brazil The growing attention of central bankers to guide public's expectation can improve the transmission mechanism and the effectiveness of the monetary...

... that this informal economy generates 40 percent of the GNP of low‐income nations and 17 percent of the GNP of high‐income ones. In some industries, such as retailing and construction, informality can account for as much as 80 percent of employment [1] . Informal labour market Evolutionary game theory Brazil...

..., and USA. 2. BRICs economies – Brazil, Russia, India, and China 3. Emerging economies – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech Republic, Hungary, India, Indonesia, Mexico, Philippines, Russia, Slovak Republic, South Africa, Sri Lanka, and Turkey. Studies concerning regulation...

...Vladimir Kühl Teles; Caio Cesar Mussolini Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse the relationship between infrastructure and total factor productivity (TFP) in the four major Latin American economies: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Design/methodology/approach The authors...

...Mauricio Reis Purpose This paper aims to investigate whether shocks to the health of a self‐employed worker in Brazil increase the labour supply of other household members. Design/methodology/approach Using data from the Brazilian National Household Survey, this paper investigates whether...

... (MSCKT) for Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The paper provides a theoretical model based on Wildasin to characterize the marginal social cost of public funds. Next it estimates using instrumental variables approach the variables necessary to calibrate our theoretical model. Findings...

... Fiscal policy Brazil National economy Nowadays it is recognized that an important task for fiscal policymakers is to stabilize the public debt/GDP ratio and thus reduce the probability of a crisis to occur. As pointed out by Missale et al. (2002) one strategy for reducing the risk...

...Ricardo Adrogué; Martin Cerisola; Gaston Gelos Purpose This paper seeks to assess Brazil's growth performance from a long‐term perspective. Brazil's growth performance over the past 25 years has been lackluster, and various hypotheses have been advanced to explain Brazil's disappointing growth...

...)+c(aθϕ). Brazil Labour market Skills Skilled workers Developing countries The informal sector represents a large proportion of production activity in less developed countries. Schneider and Enste (2000) review the literature on informal economic activity and discuss the causes...

...Helder Ferreira de Mendonça Purpose This article aims to analyze if the adoption of inflation targeting in Brazil contributed to an improvement in the conduction of monetary policy capable of increasing credibility and reducing inflation without an increase in the sacrifice rate. Design...

... and contributes to the empirical debate about inequality and the size of the government presenting the results for Brazil. There are two political candidates/parties who care only about winning the elections. Also, once the candidate platform over tax rate policy or public good provision is chosen...

...Paulo R.A. Loureiro; Francisco Galrão Carneiro; Adolfo Sachsida The article investigates the existence of discrimination in the urban and rural labor markets in Brazil. Tests the hypothesis that returns to education are different for black and white workers, male and female, in the urban and rural...