The vast majority of the empirical literature on income distribution is base on household surveys. More recently, there was a series of papers based on Personal Income Tax (PIT) records and also mixing these two types of ...

This paper analyzes the placement in the private sector of a subset of Brazilian public-sector employees. This group left public employment in the mid-1990’s through a voluntary severance program. This paper contrasts their ...

Wage-Earning Slaves is the first systematic study of coartación, a process by which slaves worked toward purchasing their freedom in installments, long recognized as a distinctive feature of certain areas under Spanish ...

Bankruptcy is one of the most important entrepreneurial problems studied by the Financial Theory. Despite this great effort there is not a significant progress in order to predict the economic failure. In this way the ...

Bankruptcy is one of the most important entrepreneurial problems studied by the Financial Theory. Despite this great effort there is not a significant progress in order to predict the economic failure. In this way the ...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze gender disparities in labor earnings for a comprehensive set of 64 countries. Design/methodology/approach – Using the methodological approach proposed by N˜ opo, socio-demographic ...

Background Burden-of-illness data, which are often used in setting healthcare policy-spending priorities, are unavailable for mental disorders in most countries. Aims To examine one central aspect of illness burden, the ...