The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

Over the last decade, both the availability of quantitative indicators on labor market institutions and of studies trying to explain differences in national labor market performance through institutional variables have burgeoned significantly. It is now time to review these indicators and the...

Economics foundations of the participation of Minas South in the construction of the Brazilian State among the years 1822-1840 ? This article intends to analyze the economic foundations of the south-economic elite politics participation when the Brazilian National State was being constituted,...

This article intends to verify the mismatching between qualification and education by sex, age, region, industrial sector and occupations. PNAD (National Household Survey) is our data source in the years 1981 to 2001. We observe over qualification in many occupations. Then, we have proposed an...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the reaction of developed countries to international migration through restrictive legislation. It is considered that the cause of this reaction is not only cyclical, derived from the contemporary crisis of capitalism, but also that it lies in the structural...