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Wage determinants analysis of Brazilian professionals producers of music content: a view by a long tail approach

Abstract

This article aims to compare the wages determinants for brazilian producers of musical content, splitted in two main groups: those who earn greater wages and those who earn minor wages. The aproach used to support this analysis is nominated The Long Tail, which was developed by Anderson (2006)ANDERSON, C. A cauda longa: do mercado de massa para o mercado de nicho. 5. ed. Trad. Afonso Celso da Cunha Serra. Rio de Janeiro: Elsevier, 2006. and says that the music market can be divided in two parts, ie the hits market and the niches market. To percieve the effects of each variable over the hour-wage in those two different markets we use quantile regressions, applied over a typical mincerian wage function. The conclusions of this paper suggests that some of the wages determinants affect in a different ways the two specific music markets, described by the Long Tail aproach.

Keywords
Economics of culture; record industry; labour market; the Long Tail

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