Our objective is to analyze the gravity of panel attrition in the Brazilian Monthly Employment Survey (PME). There are three types of panel attrition: a) random, that does not produce any selection bias; b) function of observables, whose bias can be corrected through an appropriate re-weighing...

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...

This paper analyses some dynamic aspects of the Brazilian industry evolution from 1985 to 2005. We conclude that the industry kept its capacity of productive dynamics. There were important sector breakdowns, although without affecting deeply the productive structure as a whole.