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      Book Chapter
      Tackling intersecting inequalities
      – Insights from Brazil
      Naila Kabeer, Ricardo Santos - Springer , 2023
      A concern with absolute poverty, defined as a money-metric measure of the ability to meet basic subsistence needs, has occupied a central place within the international development agenda for much of its existence. Efforts in recent years to promote a more multidimensional understanding of poverty...
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      The impacts of studying abroad
      – Evidence from a government-sponsored scholarship program in Brazil
      Otavio Conceiçaõ, Rodrigo Oliveira, André Souza - UNU-WIDER , 2023 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper investigates the impact of the Science without Borders (Ciência sem Fronteiras – CSF) programme on participants’ post-graduation enrolment, employment, and entrepreneurship. The programme was launched in 2011 to increase students’ human capital and interest in science and postgraduate...
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      Brazil: employment and inequality trends
      Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella, Flavio Riva, Giovanna Úbida - Oxford University Press , 2023 - Oxford
      From the book: Tasks, skills, and institutions
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      The unintended long-run impacts of agro-terrorism in Brazil
      Yuri Barreto, Rodrigo Oliveira - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      This paper studies the unintended long-run effects of a permanent agricultural shock led by agro-terrorism in Brazil on the education and labour market. We explore the witches' broom outbreak in cocoa farms in the world's second most important cocoa production region until 1989, the southeast of...
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      Internal migration and crime in Brazil
      Eva-Maria Egger - Economic Development and Cultural Change , 2022
      Empirical 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 migration on crime with longitudinal data from...
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      Law enforcement and illegal markets
      – Evidence from the regulation of junkyards in Brazil
      André Mancha - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      I describe how monitoring and harsher law enforcement reduce the expected economic benefits of crime. I investigate the effect of shifts in legal authorities’ surveillance by focusing on junkyards, firms often associated with illegal markets and auto theft. Starting in 2014, many municipalities in...
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      Precarization or protection?
      – The role of trade and labour policies on informality
      Rita Almeida, Lourenço Paz, Jennifer Poole - Journal of Development Studies , 2022
      Part of Journal Special Issue What sustains informality
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      Inclusion amid ethnic inequality
      – Insights from Brazil’s social protection system
      Natasha Sugiyama - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Policy 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 years, political leaders have framed social policy...
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      Inclusive growth without structural transformation?
      – The case of Brazil
      Sergio Firpo, Renan Pieri, Rafaela Nogueira - Oxford University Press , 2022
      From the book: The developer’s dilemma
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      Anticompetitive practices on public procurement
      – Evidence from Brazilian electronic biddings
      Adilson Sampaio, Paulo Figueiredo, Klarizze Puzon - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Using 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 2014 and 2017. The study uses the logit regression...
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      Affirmative action with no major switching
      – Evidence from a top university in Brazil
      Rodrigo Oliveira, Alei Santos, Edson Severnini - UNU-WIDER , 2022 - Helsinki, Finland
      Affirmative 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 students can switch majors if they underperform in the...
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      The changing nature of work and inequality in Brazil (2003–19)
      – A descriptive analysis
      Sergio Firpo, Alysson Portella, Flavio Riva, Giovanna Úbida - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      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 relation with earnings and polarization, and inequality...
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      Do disadvantaged students benefit from attending classes with more skilled colleagues?
      – Evidence from a top university in Brazil
      Henrique Motte, Rodrigo Oliveira - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      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 in Brazil, we apply a regression discontinuity...
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      Who benefits from job training programmes?
      – Evidence from a high-dosage programme in Brazil
      Daniel Da Mata, Rodrigo Oliveira, Diana Silva - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Using admission lotteries and registry data linking labour market outcomes, we study the effect of a vocational training programme focused on disadvantaged individuals in Brazil. The intensive programme is an 18-month classroom training coupled with a 6-month on-the-job training provided by...
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      Re-examining the Brazilian South–Northeast labour income gap
      – A decomposition approach
      Rodrigo Oliveira, Raul Neto - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      The 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 purchasing power index to adjust nominal values of...
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      Precarization or protection? How labour policies influence the effects of globalization on informality
      Lourenço Paz, Rita Almeida, Jennifer Poole - UNU-WIDER , 2021 - Helsinki, Finland
      Globalization has generally coincided with a rise in work outside the formal economy, intensifying job precarization — when high-quality, formal jobs that entitle workers to benefits are replaced by jobs which may not comply with regulations and offer fewer benefits. In a recent study of the impacts...
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