O Brasil, por meio da Lei no 13.467, de 13 de julho de 2017, acaba de passar pelas mais
profundas alterações no ordenamento jurídico que regula as relações trabalhistas desde a …

We develop an equilibrium wage-posting model with heterogeneous firms that decide to
locate in the formal or the informal sector and workers who search randomly on and off the …

Is Brazil's economic policy regime a mere tinkering of the Washington Consensus? The
evidence suggests that Brazilian governments institutionalized a hybrid policy regime that …

We build an equilibrium model of a small open economy with labor market frictions and
imperfectly enforced regulations. Heterogeneous firms sort into the formal or informal sector …

This paper develops a two-sector matching model that incorporates the main features of
Latin American labor markets. It has an innovation in its matching structure that makes it …

Previous literature highlights that employee turnover is one of the biggest challenges for
multinational corporations (MNCs) stemming from emerging markets. This study analyzes …

Tracking individual workers across jobs after Brazil's trade liberalization in the 1990s shows
that tariff cuts trigger worker displacements, but neither exporters nor comparative …

This paper tests whether demand shocks affect firm dynamics. We examine whether firms
that win government procurement contracts grow more compared to firms that compete for …

Recent debate on the reasons for the informal sector has led to renewed focus on how to
operationalize the measurement of informal employment. This paper investigates …

Modern information technologies allowing information cross-checking coming from different
administrative sources and to quickly buildup and update inventories of bank accounts …