Based on the realities of the cities of São Paulo, Brasilia, Fortaleza and Belém, the author explores the dynamics that characterize the activities of the national economy in the period of globalization. As big city economies are increasingly based in information and finance activities, work...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...

We investigate both theoretically and empirically the relationship between economic expansion and the degree of formalization of the Brazilian labor market in the recent period. Based on search models, we present a theoretical framework that attempts to explain the recent increase in the share...