The Urban Network and Territory research, developing in the Directory of Studies and Regional, Urban and Environmental Policies (Dirur) of the Ipea, comes following the activities focused on dynamic analysis, characterization and prospect about the urban agglomerations and the urban-regional...

The object of this discussion text typology was developed with the purpose of classifying the Brazilian municipalities according your insertion scale in the process of urbanization. Has focused on changes in the relationships between the different parts of the territory, is under productive...

In this text for discussion, a synthesis of the trajectory of the line of research on the Regions of Influence of Brazilian Cities, developed by IBGE, whose content excels in the longevity, systematcity and timeliness of complex research that expresses the Brazilian urban network since the...

This text aims to analyze the evolution of employment in Brazil, taking as reference the periods 2000-2014 and 2015-2018. It addresses the current situation and the evolution of formal employment in Brazil, through a regional and multiscale analysis, according to the basic principles recommended...

This text aims at a reflection on the configuration of cross-border arrangements, resulting from the advance of metropolization over the territory, its characteristics, and the difficulties they impose on the urban management process, due to constituting cities that break territorial borders of...

This paper investigates Young workers transition from unemployment to first job. Evidence indicates that the probability of getting a job is lower for youths who have never worked before, even when they are compared to those youths with previous labor market experience. Also, time to first job...

In this paper, we use data from the National Household Survey (PNAD) for Brazil to investigate the dynamics of the urban wage premium and the relationship between the urban wage premium and inequality trends, and we find two main results. First, we find a decreasing urban wage premium over the...

Interstate migration in Brazil represents almost 40% of total internal migration. This paper investigates the economic causes of interstate migration flow. We apply Crozet's model the interaction of increasing returns and transportation cost on the regional dynamics and migration flow in Brazil....

This article describes the distribution of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) graduates in Brazil according to meso-regions of the 2000 and 2010 population censuses. Changes in the geographic distribution of these professionals over this period are presented, as well as the...