This paper has two main purposes. Firstly, to provide information about the obstacles faced by Brazilian Labor Justice in making its decisions really effective. Secondly, to offer data which may help to estimate the amount of money involved in no-complied decisions. Regarding this, the paper...

CPNU was a public contest, organized by Enamat/TST, to select candidates for substitute judge, which is the entry position into the career of the labour magistracy. From the perspective of the candidates, the CPNU demanded an extensive and profound load of knowledge, of a legal and extra-legal...

This text presents a set of empirical evidence to "test" some hypotheses about the impacts of Labor Justice on labor productivity. Hypotheses that this justice would encourage opportunistic and immediatist behaviors of employers and workers. And these behaviors would result in noncompliance with...

Since the 1930s, Labour Justice has played very important roles in resolving labour disputes in Brazil. Nonetheless, the question that arises today is whether that justice can (or even should) continue with those roles - or whether it is possible to conceive some alternatives, which involve...

Nowadays, in Brazilian parliament, there are several propositions able to enact a legislative regulation to outsourcing. Bill no 4.330/04 is just one of them - probably, the one far ahead in the lawmaking process. Is this the best option for regulating outsourcing? There is a harsh debate about...

In the Congress, there are two Bills going through for amend the 1980's Immigration law. For that, the political debate on immigration law has gained strength among the various groups of interest in the subject, as it matures the perception that current legislation does not correspond to the...

This work explores the role of the Brazilian inheritance system in the country's wealth inequality. Brazilian Civil Law has encouraged the transmission of inheritance to children due to the rule of forced heir. Data from household surveys show that the top 5% richest Brazilians have fewer...

The article presents an analysis of the relations between national state and human rights in Brazil between the years of 1968 and 1996. The purpose is to reconstruct the historical process of the incorporation of this theme as a state policy and to put into evidence the conditionings of the...

This paper offers a quantitative evaluation of the productive efficiency of state courts of first degree in Brazil, based on the stochastic frontier approach [Aigner D.J. (1977), Meeusen W (1977) and Battese and Corra (1977)]. This study exploits the novel database by the Conselho Nacional de...