In the present article, we attempt to identify the sources of the changes in the labor schooling level in the three main sectors of the Brazilian economy: manufacturing, services and agriculture; based on the theoretical perspective of the three sectors hypothesis. It was verified that, despite...

Este artigo analisa quais variáveis estão mais associadas à desigualdade de desempenho escolar entre alunos da 4a série do ensino fundamental da rede pública de São Paulo. Foi realizada uma decomposição estática do índice Theil-L. Os resultados indicam que características de...

Este estudo pretende apresentar um novo modelo de GC estratégico em Instituições de Ensino Superior - IES, partindo da premissa da ausência de interação entre o pensamento estratégico nessas instituições e a GC de seus colaboradores. O modelo pode ajudar na resolução de problema...

In this paper we compare the Brazilian tertiary education system to the ones in five well-succeeded countries that have promoted significant efforts to develop their higher education, using 2006 data. The results suggest trade-offs between the goals of access and equity, on the one hand, and of...

Este artigo analisa os determinantes do desempenho de alunos em Matemática nas séries finais do primeiro e segundo ciclo do Ensino Fundamental e do Ensino Médio em Minas Gerais no ano de 2003. Modelos hierárquicos em três níveis são utilizados. No primeiro nível, nós incluímos muitos...

Human capital seems to be an extremely important feature to be disregarded in the evaluation of this factor impacts on income per worker (rate of growth and level). This is the reason for the emergence of many recent studies which includes this variable in the empirical analyses as studies...

The aim of this paper is to examine the relationship between the school performance and the wages of young Brazilians workers. We examine if school quality, measured by test scores of a generation in SAEB at the end of high school, affect the earnings of this generation when they enter the labor...

The role of human capital on the development process has been recognized as a crucial element by many researchers. Nevertheless, many empirical results have showed no correlation between human capital and income per capita level or between human capital and growth rates. It is argued that the...

This paper starts with a review of the three demographic components, stressing the decline in fertility, with the possibility of reaching below replacement fertility. Studies on new trends in Brazilian out migration are considered relevant for future research. The demography of compositional...

The main question behind this article is: does the University for All Program (Prouni) promote better professional trajectories, which result in higher salaries for its beneficiaries? The salaries of the graduates who were employed show that those who went to college through Prouni had a more...