%0 Report
        %A Baltagi, Badi H.
%A Rokicki, Bartlomiej
%A Souza, Kênia Barreiro de
        %T The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey
        %D 2014
        %8 2014 Sep
        %I Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        %C Bonn
        %7 IZA Discussion Paper
        %N 8468
        %U https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8468
        %X 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 when the lagged unemployment rate is used as an instrument for current unemployment rate. 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.
        %K wage curve
%K fixed effects
%K regional labor markets
%K household surveys
%K informal workers