This paper presents a description of the Brazilian public employment trend since the middle of the twentieth century. Its objective is to stress the causes of the increasing in public employment levels and also its role to the Brazilian labor market transformations since then. In this paper,...

This study verifies, first of all, the existence of segmentation between the public and private labour markets in Brazil by means of the analysis of the behavior of employment and wages in those markets during the 1990's, showing that the controlled wage gap between the workers of both sectors...