Wage employment is essential to a fair participation of workers in economic, social and political fields. This economic relation is based on many (and relevant) labour and social rights. However, in the 1990`s and the beginning of the 2000`s, wage employment lost a bit of its importance in the...

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the political role of the Deliberative Council of the Worker Support Fund (Codefat) in the process of coordination and participatory deliberation within the Public System of Employment, Work and Income (SPETR). As inputs, the minutes of all meetings of...

Wage employment is essential to a fair participation of workers in economic, social and political fields. This economic relation is based on many (and relevant) labour and social rights. However, in the 1990`s and the beginning of the 2000`s, wage employment lost a bit of its importance in the...

The purpose of this paper was to analyze the political role of the Deliberative Council of the Worker Support Fund (Codefat) in the process of coordination and participatory deliberation within the Public System of Employment, Work and Income (SPETR). As inputs, the minutes of all meetings of...

The observation of highly regulated, but successful economies has given rise to the hypothesis of various viable models of labor market adaptability. The paper presents a quantitative indicator that tries to avoid a simplified flexibility-rigidity dichotomy and provides a detailed picture of the...

The policy to combat informal labour, implemented by Labour Inspectorate Units (Fiscalização do Trabalho) until December 2002, did not result in a reduction in the informal sector indicators provided by IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Statistics and Research) for the Brazilian labour market. This...

The current crisis, while of a global nature, has affected national labor markets to a varying extent. While some countries have experienced a steep increase in unemployment, employment in other developed economies has not fallen in parallel with a significant decline in GDP. Our analysis shows...

Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless, is it possible to discuss such a role without debating the collective actors engaged in that bargaining? The answer is probably no, at least with respect to labour actors...

Since the 1930s, the Brazilian State has built a national system of labour relations. In the following decades, this system underwent many changes, as well the country itself (which became urbanized, industrialized etc.). At the present time, there is a new wave of changes in the labour...

Nowadays, there is a growing debate about the role of collective bargaining in Brazilian labour regulation. Nonetheless, is it possible to discuss such a role without debating the collective actors engaged in that bargaining? The answer is probably no, at least with respect to labour actors...