Introduction: The aging of the Brazilian population brings out the question about rising health expenditures, which are … frequency and expenditure structure in health expenditures, for men and women in Northeast and Southeast Regions, in 1998 …

This paper aims to test the relationship between health and per capita economic growth. Two main causalities were … discussed: if health would directly increase labor productivity or if it would, indirectly, intensify the positive effect of … education on growth. A better health status could decrease the depreciation of human capital, proxied by education. We run two …

, the dynamic of the local employment, and level of intra-state heterogeneity. Descriptive and multivariate methods are used … to analyze data on employment and pn local diversity in the period 1995/2008 (data from RAIS/MTE and IBGE). The results … show that the most dynamic areas in terms of employment are also those with the highest degrees of centrality. Despite the …