This paper presents a description of the Brazilian public employment trend since the middle of the twentieth century. Its objective is to stress the causes of the increasing in public employment levels and also its role to the Brazilian labor market transformations since then. In this paper,...

The main purpose of this paper is a description of the active civil servants, drawing their profile at the federal, state and municipal levels with respect to sex, age and occupation. These workers in the public sector are ruled by special laws not applicable to the other workers of the private...