TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Baltagi, Badi H.
AU  - Rokicki, Bartlomiej
AU  - Souza, Kênia Barreiro de
        TI  - The Brazilian Wage Curve: New Evidence from the National Household Survey
        PY  - 2014/Sep/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8468
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/index.php/publications/dp8468
        AB  - 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.
        KW  - wage curve
KW  - fixed effects
KW  - regional labor markets
KW  - household surveys
KW  - informal workers
        ER  -