This paper investigates Young workers transition from unemployment to first job. Evidence indicates that the probability of getting a job is lower for youths who have never worked before, even when they are compared to those youths with previous labor market experience. Also, time to first job...

This paper investigates Young workers transition from unemployment to first job. Evidence indicates that the probability of getting a job is lower for youths who have never worked before, even when they are compared to those youths with previous labor market experience. Also, time to first job...

This analysis is the second one of four descriptive studies that discussed the migratory process in Brazil. The main objective of this series is to give data support for other complementary and analytically more sophisticated studies. The main objective of this specific discussion is to present...

Spanish Abstract: En la sociedad colombiana contemporánea, al igual que sucede en muchos países del mundo, los-as jóvenes deben enfrentarse a una concepción del mundo del trabajo que ha cambiado radicalmente. En lugar de una rutina estable, de una carrera predecible, de la adhesión a una...

This article analyzes the work polarization in Brazil. We can define polarization as the difference between the observed ratio of workless households and the ratio that would prevailed if the work was randomly assigned to people. For example, imagine a simplified world with only two households...

This paper makes an analysis of the evolution of real earnings mobility for Brazilian workers from 1984 to 2001. The evolution of five real earnings mobility indicators is calculated using the Pesquisa Mensal de Emprego data set. The economic and demographic determinants of real earnings...

The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high...

This is an introductory text that presents the migration process in many different aspects. Firstly, different methods commonly used in quantitative studies of migration are introduced, including the use of data bases, direct and indirect techniques. Secondly, different patterns of migration in...

This analysis is the first one of four descriptive studies that discussed the migratory process in Brazil. The main objective of this series is to give data support for other complementary and analytically more sophisticated studies. Here migrants and non-migrants are compared in aspects such...

The relation between dynamics of poverty and labor market includes some issues as what conducts certain poor groups to escape of this condition and what induces other groups to enter in the poverty. Seeking to analyze these issues, the purpose of this article is to investigate the relation...