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A Lei Rouanet é o tema do sétimo número da Revista Observatório Itaú Cultural. Aqui os autores discutem diversos aspectos e consequências dessa lei: a concentração de recursos no eixo Rio-São Paulo, o papel das empresas estatais e privadas e o incentivo fiscal. O ministro da Cultura, Juca Ferreira, comenta em entrevista a lei e as falhas do atual modelo. O propósito desta edição é apresentar ao leitor as diversas opiniões sobre o assunto para que, ao final, a conclusão não seja categórica; o setor cultural é tecido por nuances; há, portanto, que pensá-lo como tal.
We reassess the effect of state and federal minimum wages on U.S. earnings inequality using two additional decades of data and far greater variation in minimum wages than was available to earlier studies. We argue that prior literature suffers from two sources of bias and propose an IV strategy to address both. We find that the minimum wage reduces inequality in the lower tail of the wage distribution (the 50/10 wage ratio), but the impacts are typically less than half as large as those reported elsewhere and are almost negligible for males. Nevertheless, the estimated effects extend to wage percentiles where the minimum is nominally non-binding, implying spillovers. However, we show that spillovers and measurement error (absent spillovers) have similar implications for the effect of the minimum on the shape of the lower tail of the measured wage distribution. With available precision, we cannot reject the hypothesis that estimated spillovers to non-binding percentiles are due to reporting artifacts. Accepting this null, the implied effect of the minimum wage on the actual wage distribution is smaller than the effect of the minimum wage on the measured wage distribution.
What Smart Women Know is a straightforward and honest guide from women who have learned the hard way how to be smart about men.
We study the impact of bank credit on firm productivity. We exploit a matched firm-bank database covering all the credit relationships of Italian corporations, together with a natural experiment, to measure idiosyncratic supply-side shocks to credit availability and to estimate a production model augmented with financial frictions. We find that a contraction in credit supply causes a reduction of firm TFP growth and also harms IT-adoption, innovation, exporting, and adoption of superior management practices, while a credit expansion has limited impact. Quantitatively, the credit contraction between 2007 and 2009 accounts for about a quarter of observed the decline in TFP.
Best-seller de grande sucesso, esta obra mostra como desenvolver a capacidade de transformar a raiva, o medo e a depressão em energia positiva. Com dados atuais sobre a ação danosa do estresse no organismo, Susan Andrews ensina ao leitor técnicas para gerenciar a ansiedade e a angústia, contribuindo assim para a promoção de saúde e qualidade de vida. Com linguagem leve e belas ilustrações, trata-se de um livro imperdível.
Google E-book edition of author's memoir, previously published as a print edition. Born in Shanghai in 1931, Victor Vishnevsky is a Russian Lovara Rom by culture, an Iranian by citizenship, and a resident of Brazil. In Memories of a Gypsy he takes us from his childhood in Shanghai, through his family's flight from China in 1949, through Burma, India, and Iran, and on to his emigration to Brazil and later world travels. Along the way he presents his views on his and other Gypsy cultures, and offers his opinions on history and world affairs. Addressed directly to the reader, Vishnevsky's account is like a letter written to a friend.
Intuition
'the Indigo Children Oh yeah ... I know about them! Wasn't there a movie about that? They're those special kids who do psychic things and who have dark blue auras, right?'' If that's your take on the Indigos, then you really need to read this book. The Indigo Children aren't super-psychic kids with dark blue auras. In fact, the Indigo moniker has nothing to do with auras or being psychic. Some of these teenagers are actually the ones who are strapping on bombs and bringing guns to school, so you can see that the subject here is far more profound than the sensational hype that often accompanies it. This book is all about the children of our planet, what really might be happening with them, wh...