In a stylized way, this text presents the dynamics of the welfare in Brazil in recent decades, highlighting especially the 2000's. Firstly, the purpose is to check some basic indicators of well-being (or of lack of it), as those related to poverty and extreme poverty situations. Secondly, the...

This paper presents new empirical evidence about the wage gap between union and nonunion workers in Brazil. In principle, due to the rules governing union organization/mobilization, no one should rationally expect such gap. But, as this paper reveals, there is empirical evidence of its existence...

Since the 1930s, the Brazilian State has built a national system of labour relations. In the following decades, this system underwent many changes, as well the country itself (which became urbanized, industrialized etc.). At the present time, there is a new wave of changes in the labour...

The purpose of this article is to describe, in a stylized way, the current situation of the legal labour market in Brazil. In other words, the situation of the market integrated by professionals: i) with complete higher education in law and, ii) occupied in jobs demanding this specific type of...

The development of several policies and research projects rely on data on the population socioeconomic characteristics and on the spatial distribution of economic activities and public services. Nonetheless, these data in Brazil are often difficult to access, require large computational power to...