and 1996. Particul arly, we focus the evaluation on the health insurance plans, giving special attention on the results …This paper analyses the nature of the household’s expenditure with medical care, in special, with health plans - during … the families, we make a description and analysis about the magnitude and the distribution of health expe nditures in 1987 …

effects on employment level and composition (formal X informal) were identified for both, time series and longitudinal data …. The results show a significant effect of minimum wage on wage distribution. Regarding employment the aggregate effects … points towards a decrease in employment level and also in the formal share of those employed. However the magnitudes are not …

structure of employment and wage. We use data from the manufacturing sector from 1987 to 1998 and found evidences that the … higher trade flow affected the inter-industry employment shares and wage premia. We also found that skilled and unskilled …