Despite the recovery of economic growth in Latin America during the 1990s, rising unemployment, high informality rates and sluggish wages lie at the root of high inequality and poverty. This paper looks at changes in hourly earnings from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in three relatively...

Even though substantial progress has been achieved worldwide in reducing both poverty and malnutrition, much is yet to be done. There are signs that the progress made in both dimensions has stalled in recent years. This special issue of Policy in Focus is dedicated to answering a crucial...

O artigo analisa a evolução do salário mínimo (SM) no Brasil depois da estabilização do Plano Real. Mostra-se que entre 1994 e 2007, a variável teve um aumento real acumulado de mais de 100%. Com isso, seu valor avançou na escala de rendimentos, estimando-se que em 2007 tenha alcançado...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the length of poverty spells and its determinants. We analyze if short-term changes in the labor market affect the probability of staying in poverty. On the assumption that poverty transitions occur more frequently when we use a monthly data rather than...