The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States

By Narcio Aquino Menezes-Filho, Marc-Andreas Muendler, Garey Ramey. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2008

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We employ comprehensive linked employer-employee data for Brazil to analyze wage determinants and compare results to Abowd et al. (2001) for French and U.S. manufacturing. While returns to human capital in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, occupation and gender differentials are similar. The worker-characteristics component accounts for much of the greater wage inequality in Brazil, but the establishment-fixed component has scant explanatory power. Thus, firm- or industry-level factors offer little scope for explaining the differences in wage inequality. Brazil's wage structure resembles that of France, a country with some similarity in labor market institutions.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Public Administration

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Firms and the Decline in Earnings Inequality in Brazil (2017, unknown): “Similarly, Menezes-Filho et al. (2008) focus on the cross-sectional relationship between firm characteristics and wages in Brazil’s manufacturing and mining sectors.”
International Trade, Technology, and the Skill Premium (2017, background): “In unpublished results, Menezes-Filho et al. (2008)—using data from the 1995 Pesquisa Industrial Anual survey of large manufacturing Brazilian firms—estimate that this elasticity is 0.36 in the data.”
Inequality and Unemployment in a Global Economy (2009, unknown): “For this purpose, contact the Editorial Office of the Econometric Society at econometrica@econometricsociety.org.”