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Horizontal inequality and ethnic diversity in BrazilPart of Journal Special Issue Horizontal Inequality: Persistence and Change
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Intersecting inequalities and the Sustainable Development GoalsConcerns about the dramatic rise in income inequality across the world and, at the same time, assessments of national progress on the Millennium Development Goals made it clear that it is the intersection of income inequality, marginalized social...
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Roots of dissentThis paper investigates the long-term impact of economic shocks on populism, by exploiting a natural experiment created by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event generated...
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Inclusive growth without structural transformation?Through rapid urbanization, Brazil—previously a country where most workers were in the agricultural sector—went through a strong process of structural transformation that lasted almost four decades until economic liberalization at the beginning of...
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues?Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university in Brazil that splits students into two classes, we apply a regression discontinuity design to study the effect of class allocation on academic performance and...
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Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gapThe purpose of this article is to provide new evidence about the sources of regional income inequalities in Brazil along the wage distribution, taking into account the regional differentials in purchasing power. We use a unique and recent regional...
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Migrating out of mega-citiesTraditional economic models predict rural to urban migration during the structural transformation of an economy. In middle-income countries, it is less clear which direction of migration to expect. In this article, the author shows that in Brazil as...
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Internal migration and crime in BrazilEmpirical evidence suggests that the social effects of internal migration may be substantially different from those associated with the arrival of international migrants. In this study the author provides the first evidence of the effect of internal...
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Affirmative action with no major switchingAffirmative action in higher education may lead to mismatch, a situation where students benefiting from preferential admission struggle with their college-level work because of poor pre-college academic preparation. In the United States, those...
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Precarization or protection? The impact of trade and labour policies on informalitySeveral episodes of market-oriented reforms in developing countries have been accompanied by a significant rise in work outside of the formal economy. This paper investigates whether the impact of increased exposure to trade on formal employment is...
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Inclusive growth without structural transformation?Part of Book The Developer’s Dilemma
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Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues?Peers play an essential role in cognitive and non-cognitive skills formation. Ordinal rank may also change incentives and environment, impacting students’ efforts. Using two rich administrative data sets and a rule of admission at one top university...
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The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19)In this paper we use different sources of data on job task content to investigate the importance of occupations and the intensity of routine tasks embodied in them in explaining changes in employment and earnings in Brazil, in particular their...
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Precarization or protection?Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
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Anticompetitive practices on public procurementUsing big data from the Brazilian public procurement system, this research aims to investigate what factors are associated with the occurrence of anticompetitive practices in electronic bidding. Our analysis considers all services contracted between...
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Inclusion amid ethnic inequalityPolicy frames in Brazil have long run up against conflicting visions and understandings about the causes and consequences of group-based inequality. This paper argues that a class-based lens has dominated the social protection framework. In recent...
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