During last two decades, Brazil presented an enormous inequality in income distribution and great poverty level. Thus, this work aims describe the actual situation and temporal evolution of the magnitude and nature of poverty and inequality in Brazil during this period and investigate the...

In this paper we pursue three objectives. First, we compare the wage-distributions in the informal and formal sectors for a group of workers employed in the Brazilian Construction Sector. The empirical regularities we encounter are not, however, specific to this particular group of workers....