The Brazilian wage curve: new evidence from the National Household Survey

Badi H. Baltagi; Bartlomiej Rokicki; Kênia Barreiro de Souza

doi:10.1007/s00181-016-1105-5

The Brazilian wage curve: new evidence from the National Household Survey

Badi H. Baltagi, Bartlomiej Rokicki, Kênia Barreiro de Souza

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This paper reconsiders the Brazilian wage curve using individual data from the National Household Survey at 27 Federative Units over the period 2002–2009. We find evidence in favor of the Brazilian wage curve with an unemployment elasticity of −0.08. We also find that males in Brazil are significantly more responsive to local unemployment rates (−0.13) than their female counterparts. In fact, we find that the unemployment elasticity for women is statistically insignificant. Applying gender-specific unemployment rates, the elasticity for men decreases to −0.09, while the elasticity for women remains statistically insignificant. This paper also finds that the estimates for Brazilian wage curve are completely different for the case of formal and informal workers.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	267-286
Number of pages	20
Journal	Empirical Economics
Volume	53
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s00181-016-1105-5
State	Published - Aug 1 2017

Keywords

Fixed effects
Household Surveys
Informal workers
Regional labor markets
Wage curve

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Statistics and Probability
Mathematics (miscellaneous)
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)
Economics and Econometrics

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