The present work points out to show the Public Ombudsman Service as a changing, inclusion and social control tool. As methodology, a bibliography revision was made, besides the author experience in ombudsman service management, showing how the Public Ombudsman Service contributes in building...

Federal Statute nº 13.147, enacted by National Congress in July 13th, 2017, altered extensively the Brazilian Labour Code. Several of the alterations were justified under the need to solve legal certainty issues, that allegedly caused excessive labour litigation. In the same direction, changes...

The empirical evidence related to the public-private wage gap in Brazil indicates that workers from the Brazilian public sector earn, on average, higher wages than the private sector ones. This paper surveys three literatures related to this topic. First, it surveys the main studies related to...

This paper discusses the evolution of public employment data among different countries since the end of the nineteenth century and through the twentieth century, with special emphasis to the period after the Second World War (after 1945). The description of the international socio-economic...

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,...

This study investigates the wage gap between the public and private sectors in Brazil. The analysis is carried out with 2009 microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de Domicílios (PNAD) and it takes account its complex sample design. The main contribution of this study is the...

This paper analyzes the job creation, job destruction and job turnover in the Brazilian private sector between 1997 and 2012 as proposed by Davis and Haltiwanger (1992), with particular attention to fluctuations after the 2008 financial crisis. This crisis is considered an adverse shock in the...

Using a factor decomposition of the Gini coefficient we measure the contribution to inequality of direct monetary transfers to and from the Brazilian State. Among the transfers from the State are wages of public workers, pensions and social assistance; the transfers to the State are direct taxes....

This article diagnosis the long run sustainability of the pension scheme for public employees (RPPS) in Brazilian subnational governments. The paper describes the rules applied to RPPS related to eligibility criteria, benefit formula, pension indexation, contribution rates and funding. The paper...