This paper presents a description of the Brazilian public employment trend since the middle of the twentieth century. Its objective is to stress the causes of the increasing in public employment levels and also its role to the Brazilian labor market transformations since then. In this paper,...

The aim of this paper is to present a review of the theoretical and empirical literature about the effects of trade liberalization on the labor markets of developing countries. We discuss models which seek to explain the empirical finding that openness has increased the wage inequality in...

This dissertation is an empirical investigation on the validity of main relationships, established in a theoretical model developed by Ferreira (2001), about the interaction between income, educational and political inequalities, as well as the influence of these inequalities on an economy's per...