The Structure of Worker Compensation in Brazil, with a Comparison to France and the United States
利用巴西的雇主-雇员匹配数据，分析工资决定因素，并与法国和美国制造业比较，发现巴西的人力资本回报更高，但职业和性别差异相似，且工人特征解释了大部分工资不平等。
We employ a comprehensive linked 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. While returns to human capital variables in Brazilian manufacturing exceed those of the other countries, occupation and gender differentials are similar. The worker characteristics component of individual compensation 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 have little scope for explaining the differences in wage inequality. Brazil's wage structure closely resembles that of France, a country with some similarity in labor-market institutions.