The goal of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to provide some empirical evidence on the importance of a continuous process of educational expansion for equitable and sustainable socioeconomic development. Second, it provides an evaluation of the Brazilian educational performance and seeks...

This paper estimates the impact of recent minimum wage adjustments on poverty level for the six major Brazilian metropolitan areas. We make a decomposition of the observed variation on poverty level registered for a sample of longitudinal data based on a monthly employment survey (PME/IBGE)....