Recent technological changes accelerated by theglobalization of the economy has forced a productiverestructuring of enterprises, with negative impacts on thelevel of employment. This worldwide phenomena has beenspecially strong in Brazil due to the opening of its economyin the beginning of the...

This paper describes a multisector general equilibrium model built to quantify the impact of alternative scenarios of medium and long run on the performance of the Brazilian economy. To demonstrate how the model can be used as a planning instrument, we imagine that the Brazilian government wants...