The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to provide a preliminary answer to the question of how long will improvements in schooling of younger cohorts take o change the distribution of educational endowments of the total...

The objective of this paper is to explore the interplay between schooling and demographics in Brazil. We would like to provide a preliminary answer to the question of how long will improvements in schooling of younger cohorts take o change the distribution of educational endowments of the total...

The article examines the Brazilian Welfare State's main tendencies between the early 1930's and the late 1990's. Comparing the literature on the subject it shows that the distributive characteristics of social policies were affected by an concentrative economic model, by the lack of a wide labor...