Decisive factors affecting the recent increase in formal employment in Brazil. This paper gives a general overview of … employment rates from 2001 to 2005, as opposite to what had happened from 1995 to 1999. It is argued that such recent trends …

attempts to explain the recent increase in the share of formal employment through the dynamics of hiring strategies of firms … employment rises as the unemployment rate falls and that the wage gap between formal and informal workers increases, at least at …

Since 1990, the problem of employment in Brazil has been associated to the model of regulation of the labor relations … the national problem of employment doesn't explain by the actual social regulation model. It is product of the process of … stagnation of the Brazilian economy in a context of reorganization of the productive structure has aggravated the employment …