. Our paper uses national data from Brazil between 2002 and 2013 to examine retrospectively how it has performed on some of …

Minimum wage policy supported by a strong social policy is an efficient mechanism against poverty and income erosion of …

This paper investigates if the responsibility of the poverty level registered in Brazil is the poor operation of the … decomposition of distributional changes we assess the impact on the degree of poverty of unemployment, segmentation, and … discrimination. In order to estimate the effect of these labor market imperfections on poverty, it was necessary, first, to define …