Este artigo objetiva investigar os determinantes do gap de crédito nos municípios brasileiros, sendo compreendido como gap o volume de crédito necessário para igualar a participação da localidade no total de crédito concedido no país à sua participação no PIB nacional. Parte-se de um...

The research on the relation between school quality and student achievement have many different results, but most analysts conclude that the school quality has little influence on student performance, as compared to background characteristics. However, there are evidences that difficulties using...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the acceleration of demographic transition in Brazil between 2000 and 2050. To do so, projections carried out by the Brazilian Bureau of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) in 2004 and 2008 will be compared. In order to show that the country could grow old before...

This text seeks to offer a critique of the official criteria for the classification of the population according to their place of residence - rural or urban. With arguments based on the normative evolution of this classification and a quantitative exercise in an illustrative way, the text tries...

This paper presents a description of the Brazilian public employment trend since the middle of the twentieth century. Its objective is to stress the causes of the increasing in public employment levels and also its role to the Brazilian labor market transformations since then. In this paper,...

This article brings new inputs to debate outsourcing in Brazil, using a new methodology based on administrative records. With this methodology, it is possible to identify 4.02 million outsourced workers, corresponding to 11.7% of total employees in the urban private sector. Moreover, with this...

Introduction: The aging of the Brazilian population brings out the question about rising health expenditures, which are dependent not only on the age structure, but also on the expenditure distribution by age, which, on its turn, is related to the epidemiological profile by age and on the...

The main objective of this paper is to do a content analysis of the production of master’s theses and doctoral dissertations of the graduate program in Demography at Cedeplar/UFMG between April 1989 and May 2009. More specifically, the paper aims at (i) verifying how the topics under study...

In Brazil, it has been difficult to elaborate governmental planning surpassing the four-year spectrum from the Pluriannual Plans. Despite the fact of long-term planning attracting a wide range of sectors, it still occupies a small space in both political and State agendas. Hence, the present...