Portuguese Abstract: O volume de investimentos governamentais na área de segurança pública, conforme as informações de orçamentos públicos, estão excessivamente elevados, em detrimento de áreas como a saúde pública, cujos valores apresentam-se aquém das necessidades. Faz-se...

This paper examines if taking into account changes in the number of producers, or equivalently changes in the product variety space over the business cycle, helps to understand and replicate international business cycle facts. To this end, we develop a two-country model in which the economy is...

Research on population projections and estimates are well-developed worldwide. Nonetheless, methodological advances are still required when it comes to educationspecific population projections. This paper aims to contribute in this matter presenting a method to project specialised workforce in...

This text contains some results of a quantitative survey, which is part of the System of Indicators of Social Perception (SIPS), coordinated by the Institute of Applied Economic Research (Ipea). This survey is about the working time - as well as about the relations between it and other kinds of...

Arguments against means-tested cash transfers for the poor based upon labor supply appear both in the specialized literature and in the media. It is possible to make a microeconomic argument pointing to a reduction in labor supply on the part of beneficiaries of a targeted cash transfer. This...

Based on quantitative and qualitative research conducted in Recife in 2018 among young people aged 15 to 24 years, this study analyzes and compares labor and schooling trajectories as well as expectations regarding qualification and professional life in order to highlight possible differences...

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...

The main objective of this paper is to seek an explanation for the gap between the estimated remote work potential for Brazil and the remote work actually observed in the country. For this, at first, the teleworking potential is estimated based on the methodology of Dingel and Neiman (2020)...

Ensuring career enhancement and good working conditions for schoolteachers are vital to guarantee learning opportunities for all, as recons the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) and Brazilian's National Education Plan (PNE). The present study analyses indicators related to schoolteachers,...

This Discussion Paper aims to analyze the constraints linked to the individual characteristics of the worker, such as gender, race or color, education and age group, as well as characteristics of the labor market, such as, type of employment relationship and sector of economic activity, related...