In recent years, Brazil has seen an increase in formal employment, the raising of the minimum wage, a recovery in the purchasing power of the average wage, a drop in open unemployment and curbs on unprotected subcontracting. Average household incomes have risen and poverty has declined. How was...

This paper shows an alternative specification of the demand functions of both total imports and the imports of capital goods for Brazil. The set up is based on the conjecture that a variable expressing the availability of foreign exchange should be included in these import functions. Our...

This paper analyses - in a structuralist approach - the recent path (1980/2000) of Brazilian economy and the consequencies over the labour market. There are three important aspects to be noted in the text. First, we present the main relations between the crisis of Brazilian economy and the...