Jorge Saba Arbache

Biographic Data

ID5733576
NAMEJorge Saba Arbache
GIVEN NAMESJorge Saba
FAMILY NAMEArbache
SIGNATUREARBACHE J S
AFFILIATIONSUniversidade de Brasília
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS50
WORKS AS AUTHOR7
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2008
H-INDEX3

  • Tourism and poverty relief

    Open AccessAdam Blake, Jorge Saba Arbache et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2008Cited by: 26References: 20

  • Trade Liberalisation and Wages in Developing Countries

    Open AccessJorge Saba Arbache, Andy Dickerson et al.ARTICLEThe Economic Journal2004Cited by: 12References: 33

    This paper reviews the effects of trade liberalisation on wages in developing countries, and presents new evidence for Brazil. Wages fell substantially in the traded sector after trade liberalisation, consistent with there being reduced rents as industries faced greater competition. After trade liberalisation there was an increase in the marginal returns to college education. Within the traded sector, the impact of increasing openness on wages wa…

  • The Impacts of Trade on the Brazilian Labor Market

    Open AccessFrancisco Galrão Carneiro, Jorge Saba ArbacheARTICLEWorld Development2003Cited by: 1References: 3

  • Wage Differentials in Brazil

    Jorge Saba ArbacheARTICLEThe Journal of Development Studies2001

    The investigation of wage determination and wage differentials in developing countries has concentrated on the effects of human capital and different sources of segmentation associated with institutional arrangements and structural characteristics on earnings. In this article, we use micro-data for Brazil for the 1980s and 1990s to test several competitive theories, and models with segmentation explained by efficiency wages. We find that unmeasur…

  • A Picture of Wage Inequality and the Allocation of Labor Through a Period of Trade Liberalization

    Open AccessFrancis Green, Andy Dickerson et al.ARTICLEWorld Development2001Cited by: 10References: 3

  • Unions and Interindustry Wage Differentials

    Open AccessJorge Saba Arbache, Francisco Galrão CarneiroARTICLEWorld Development1999Cited by: 1References: 4

  • Pressure groups and inflation

    Open AccessJorge Saba Arbache, João Ricardo Faria et al.ARTICLEBrazilian Journal of Political…1996References: 4

    This text presents arguments according to which the pressures of organized groups - but which act in an uncoordinated way - on government decisions related to fiscal issues, cause an increase in inflation, at the same time that they favour the disorganization of the economy. This last effect imposes limits on the behavior of these groups. A “prey-predator” model is used to describe the cyclical correction between the level of organization of such…