This work does an effort to understand the central issues related to development of the, here named, Public System of Employment, Work and Income (SPETR) in Brazil. To this, the work is organized as follows. Section 1: shows the historical construction of the principal policies of employment,...

This paper gives a general overview of the evolution of labour market indicators between 1995 and 2005 in Brazil. It shows an overall increase in formal employment rates from 2001 to 2005, as opposite to what had happened from 1995 to 1999. It is argued that such recent trends might indicate the...

Este texto realiza breve balanço e contextualização histórica acerca da emergência, auge e declínio do planejamento governamental no Brasil, buscando identificar elementos teóricos e empíricos que possam justificar – quiçá – a sua retomada desde princípios do novo milênio, como...