The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between ageing and dependence and the role of social policies in Brazil according to rural and urban areas. In other words, is being elderly in rural areas different from being elderly in urban areas? And if it is found to be so,...

The main purpose of this paper is to discuss the relationship between ageing and dependence and the role of social policies in Brazil according to rural and urban areas. In other words, is being elderly in rural areas different from being elderly in urban areas? And if it is found to be so,...

This paper presents a series of rural-urban net migration by age and sex for Brazil as a whole and the five major regions. They refer to the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s and the first half of the 90s. Based on this, it was possible to analyze the importance of the rural-urban migration of each major...

The paper analyzes the participation of Brazilian elderly in the labor market from 1977 to 1998. This analysis is different from traditional labor market analysis as the main focus is not with the pressure that elderly can put on the labor market. The objective is to look at their participation...

The paper analyses the marked changes experienced by the Brazilian population throughout the end of the XXth century. It also presents two sets of population projections for the quinquenium comprised between 2000 and 2020. They are disaggregated by sex, age groups and place of residence (rural...

The paper analyses the Northeastern youth and elderly life conditions. It considers as a background the stable life trajectory experienced by the elderly in their prime comparable to the instable one that the youth are experiencing nowadays. This consideration takes into account their...

The question addressed in this paper is how families with elderly living in are organizing themselves to face populational ageing, a major children economic dependency and the reduction of the role of the State. Are they "empty nests"? Co-residence and elderly increase in family size may be a...

This paper gives a demographic approach to the matter of the Brazilian demographic ageing. It discusses the relationship between ageing and dependence. It also tries to evaluate if to be elderly today, 1998, it is different of being elderly in the recent paste, 1981. The data utilized are from...