The Distributive Effects of Land Titleon Labor Supply : Evidence From Brazil /

This paper studies the effects of property-titling on labor supply. The role of legal ownership security is isolated by comparing the effect that being part of, or excluded from, a land title program in a unique quasi-experiment in two similar communities in the Brazilian city of Osasco. Our main in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moura, Mauricio
Other Authors: Piza, Caio, Poplawski Ribeiro, Marcos
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2011.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2011/131
Online Access:Full text available on IMF