Decisive factors affecting the recent increase in formal employment in Brazil. This paper gives a general overview of … employment rates from 2001 to 2005, as opposite to what had happened from 1995 to 1999. It is argued that such recent trends …

employment rises as the unemployment rate falls and that the wage gap between formal and informal workers increases, at least at … attempts to explain the recent increase in the share of formal employment through the dynamics of hiring strategies of firms …