Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains in Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains in Brazil write by Joana Silva. This book was released on 2015-08-26. Sustaining Employment and Wage Gains in Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Continued social and economic progress in Brazil will depend on high employment, sustained labor productivity and income growth, and opportunities for the poor and disadvantaged to upgrade their own productivity and convert it into sustainable incomes.
Rightsizing Brazil’s Public-Sector Wage Bill
Rightsizing Brazil’s Public-Sector Wage Bill - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Rightsizing Brazil’s Public-Sector Wage Bill write by Ms.Izabela Karpowicz. This book was released on 2018-10-08. Rightsizing Brazil’s Public-Sector Wage Bill available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Brazil’s public-sector wage bill is comparatively high. It grows inertially and competes with other spending. Rightsizing the wage bill could stimulate administrative efficiency and bring more equity into a system where public employees earn more than private in comparable professions. Most importantly, however, a reform is necessary to comply with the Federal government expenditure ceiling and the subnational fiscal responsibility rules. A reform should thus encompass all government levels, and all careers, and should aim to achieve a real decrease in salaries and lower employment. In the medium term, a review of the compensation structure should rationalize the multitude if wage grids, merge allowances into the base wage, and align public sector compensation to private wages in low-skilled professions.
Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility
Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility write by Mr.Marcello M. Estevão. This book was released on 2012-03-01. Institutions, Informality, and Wage Flexibility available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Even though institutions are created to protect workers, they may interfere with labor market functioning, raise unemployment, and end up being circumvented by informal contracts. This paper uses Brazilian microeconomic data to show that the institutional changes introduced by the 1988 Constitution lowered the sensitivity of real wages to changes in labor market slack and could have contributed to the ensuing higher rates of unemployment in the country. Moreover, the paper shows that states that faced higher increases in informality (i.e., illegal work contracts) following the introduction of the new Constitution tended to have smaller drops in wage responsiveness to macroeconomic conditions, thus suggesting that informality serves as a escape valve to an over-regulated environment.
The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil
The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil write by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2021-03-05. The Short-Term Impact of COVID-19 on Labor Markets, Poverty and Inequality in Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We document the short-term impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Brazilian labor market focusing on employment, wages and hours worked using the nationally representative household surveys PNAD-Continua and PNAD COVID. Sectors most susceptible to the shock because they are more contact-intensive and less teleworkable, such as construction, domestic services and hospitality, suffered large job losses and reductions in hours. Given low income workers experienced the largest decline in earnings, extreme poverty and the Gini coefficient based on labor income increased by around 9.2 and 5 percentage points, respectively, due to the immediate shock. The government’s broad based, temporary Emergency Aid transfer program more than offset the labor income losses for the bottom four deciles, however, such that poverty relative to the pre-COVID baseline fell. At a cost of around 4 percent of GDP in 2020 such support is not fiscally sustainable beyond the short-term and ended in late 2020. The challenge will be to avoid a sharp increase in poverty and inequality if the labor market does not pick up sufficiently fast in 2021.
Wages, Labour and Regional Development in Brazil
Wages, Labour and Regional Development in Brazil - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Wages, Labour and Regional Development in Brazil write by William D. Savedoff. This book was released on 1995. Wages, Labour and Regional Development in Brazil available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A comprehensive text that presents an economic study of Brazil from a regional, labour and developmental viewpoint. Regional wage differentials are examined.
