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We study the impacts of family income and parental education on the probability of children’s schooling delay using the … 1996 PNAD. With the adoption of some hypotheses about the links between generations of children, parents and grandparents … decisions concerning children schooling (simultaneity bias) or that are transmitted from one generation to another (hereditary …
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This document presents a review on how youth issues have been dealt with in the field of social policies in Brazil. The first paper proposes an extensive approach to the theme by revising the main concepts of youth that have given shape to public policies and pointing out some of the crucial...
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prevalence of children in the labor market, accounting for more than 80% of the decline in child labor in 15 years. But despite … all the progress, the number of working children is still high and the incidence is much greater in lower socioeconomic …
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In this paper, we evaluate the impact of a qualification program for young people in which training is fully offered by a group of potential employers. We perform this evaluation comparing such initiative to the Jovem Aprendiz Program, whose participants make up a pertinent control group in...
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The objective of this article is to understand the main socioeconomic determinants of family cohabitation and new household formation by young adults in Brazilian urban areas. Methodologically, the study adapts the models of De Vos (1989) and Granado and Castillo (2002) to the Brazilian case,...
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have children between 15 and 19 years of age have more interruptions in school life, are more likely not to be working or … children were identified as barriers in finding a job. These young people also report feeling the abandonment of public …
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This article analyzes the effects of voluntary changes in maternity leave - through the Programa Empresa Cidadã (PEC) - from 120 days to 180 days on hiring and wages of female workers in companies that adhered to the program. For this purpose, we used the propensity score matching method...
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This article investigates the socioeconomic impacts of unemployment on different groups of individuals, and specially addresses the family circulation of goods and services during the job search. For this, it examines the vocabularies of 245 workers in semi-structured interviews carried out by...
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course has a much stronger effect on women, with children extending the time spent in domestic labor - although this time … decreases as the age of the children increases, the impact of children on women is twice that on men. Taking care of the elderly …
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