This paper examines the recent evolution of unemployment and inactivity in Brazilian metropolitan areas. We analyze the … inactivity: it is inversely related to male inactivity and directly related to female inactivity. Moreover, the observed patterns … among poor and non-poor women are extremely different – poor women have higher inactivity rates than non-poor women …

of work. The immorality of consigning a portion of the workforce to the degradation of unemployment would be eliminated …

could lead to more unemployment. This long run effect vanishes under the Phillips specification. On the whole, the final … effect upon unemployment depends on agents' bargaining preferences during wage negotiations: the further from labor cost they … negotiate (thus the closer to net income), the higher the risk that demographic change ultimately leads to more unemployment. …

political institutions and political rivalry on human capital accumulation and income inequality. Relating to the increasing … inequality. As regards the role of political institutions, our analysis suggests that the elasticities of human capital …

In this paper we intend to empirically examine how different political institutions may define the long-term economic …