Wage differentials by firm size: the efficiency wage test in a developing country

Using data from the Brazilian Labor Monthly Survey (PME/ IBGE) for the years of 2006 and 2007, the paper investigates if the wage differential by firm size in Brazil can be explained by the predictions of the Efficiency Wage Theory. It is adopted a Switching Regression Model to estimate if large siz...

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Main Authors: Tatiane Almeida de Menezes, Isabel Pessoa de Arruda Raposo
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade de São Paulo 2014-03-01
Series:Estudos Econômicos
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0101-41612014000100002&lng=en&tlng=en