This article analyzes the evolution of working hours shifts in Brazil from 1981 to 1999. The data are based on the PNAD (a Brazilian Household National Survey). The econometric model used has its grounds on the methodology Age-Period-Cohort, which allows us not only to analyze the effects...

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...

[Introduction ...] The report is divided into six sections, in addition to the present introduction. Section 1 briefly describes the evolution of social protection and of the social security system in Brazil, and the role of the PBF in this system. Section 2 presents the major features of the...

Ever-more sophisticated studies on the methodological approach and the conceptual scope of poverty have led to a consensus among scholars on the dynamic characteristic of this phenomenon – in other words, the existence of an in-and-out of privation movement of individuals and families. Within...

In Brazil, the nineties are marked by profound changes in the patterns of employment and earnings. Our main purpose is to analyze the extent of occupational mobility in Brazil, during this period, with special attention to differences between male and female profiles. We investigate workers...

We estimate a system of three behavioral equations for Brazilian children and teenagers (school absenteeism, health status and child labor). We relieved the assumption of independence of the disturbance terms of each equation. Moreover, if causality mechanisms between these three components...