Although many studies were done in Brazil about poverty, very few of then did analyze the transient or persistent nature of this phenomenon. Encouraged by the lack of poverty analyses as a dynamic phenomenon in Brazil, the objective of this paper is to evaluate which characteristics determine...

This paper investigates the effect of the minimum wage on employment transitions in Brazil and, in particular, on the informal sector transitions. We estimate the probability of becoming nonemployed (unemployed or out of the labour force) and the probability of moving to the informal sector...