The paper analyses the new sectoral and occupational profile of Brazilian labour market in the 1990?s. Firstly we discuss some general aspects of the sectoral changes in employment and of the personal distribution of income in Brazil. The analysis leads to the conclusion that the personal...

This paper presents some of the information from the domestic inquiry carried in 1998 between August and September. The investigation covered six hundred homes in the Southern and Northeasthern regions of Brazil. Its main objective was to evaluate the socio-economic and regional impacts of the...