This article aims to present the main characteristics of Brazilian workers who work in the formal labor market in Spanish, using the new source of information from the Spanish Social Security. In general, Brazilians workers are occupied mainly in the construction sector, main motor of the...

This paper describes the income distribution in the Goiania metropolitan area comparing the data census for 1991 and 2000. In general, we observe a clear trend of increasing per capita income and poverty alleviation in the region. However, data also show a significant increase in income...

This note aims to present a simple algorithm to generate a more disaggregated variable for education to Brazilian PME – Monthly Employment Survey, in the version applied to from 2002. The originally variable presented on PME microdata (VDAE1) is broken down into four categories of education...

This technical note aims to explain, from a example, the use of the esttab command, developed by Jann (2005) for the Stata statistical package. This command lets you export directly to a RTF file, compatible with most traditional word processors, a table with the results of linear and nonlinear...

This article aims to give a brief description of the household’s income distribution in Goiás and the role that the local labor market has on this income, using PNAD data for the period 2002/2009. Overall, it found a per capita income better distributed compared to income of the country....

This article aims to present two of the most important trends of the Brazilian labor market during the final decades of the last century: the loss of industrial space in the generation of jobs and the deregulation of labor relations. The eighties and the end of the growth strategy driven by...

This note presents a routine to calculate the conditional number, an important multicollinearity indicator, using the package GRETL.