@techreport{MenezesFilho2006structure,
abstract = {We employ a comprehensive matched employer-employee data set for Brazil to analyze wage
determinants and compare results to Abowd, Kramarz, Margolis and Troske (2001) for
French and U.S. manufacturing. Returns to education and experience in Brazilian
manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, while occupation differentials are similar.
The gender differential in Brazilian and U.S. manufacturing coincides, and is considerably
smaller than in France. Estimates are unaffected by selectivity of Brazilian workers into
formal employment. The links between firm performance and wage components in Brazil
resemble those of France. Worker characteristics have comparable explanatory power for
manufacturing wage variability in the three countries but establishment-fixed effects explain
relatively less of the Brazilian wage variation. Despite the inclusion of establishment effects,
regressors predict at most sixty percent of wage variability in any Brazilian sector, suggesting
that explanations for earnings variability ought to focus on worker characteristics, not
establishment wage policies.},
author = {Na\'{e}rcio Aquino Menezes Filho and Marc-Andreas M\"{u}ndler and Garey Ramey},
copyright = {http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen},
keywords = {J31; D21; 330; wage structure; wage inequality; matched employer-employee data; formal and informal employment; selectivity; Brazil; Lohnstruktur; Industriearbeit; Lohndifferenzierung; Vergleich; Sch\"{a}tzung; Brasilien; USA; Frankreich},
language = {eng},
number = {1643},
title = {The structure of worker compensation in Brazil, with a comparison to France and the United States},
type = {CESifo working papers},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19107},
year = {2006}
}
