This paper aims at contributing to the debate regarding the role of the minimum wage in Brazil. This is carried out by assessing its potential effects on the labor market outcomes, as well in terms of poverty alleviation and fiscal impact. First, a succinct description of the institutional...

One of the main concerns with youths is the nem-nems, which correspond to the group of youths that are not investing in their productive skills through the activities of either studying or working. This study analyzes data from National Household Sample Survey (Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de...

In a pay-as-you-go system (SPR) receives contributions from active generations to finance the benefit of inactive people, making their financial balance depend on the proportion of inactive people in the population, a proportion that will double in Brazil in the next 30 years, making it...

This article presents the results of an impact assessment of the Employment and Income Generation Program (Proger) - a loan program to small e medium sized firms conducted by the Brazilian government - on formal employment, payroll and unjustified dismissals. Two sources of data were used in the...

We offer a decomposition for the variance of the current unemployment rate that not only measures the contributions of labor market flows but also of the approximation error embedded in other decompositions that use surrogates for the current rate. Using data for the United States and Brazil,...

Neste trabalho, são analisados alguns métodos que podem ser usados para realizar agrupamentos de unidade que compõem algum sistema de provisão de serviços públicos (por exemplo, escolas, postos de saúde e delegacias). Os métodos aqui analisados são: i) o baseado em alguma partição...

Conditional Cash Transfer (CCT) programmes have been extensively used by many governments worldwide with the dual purpose of alleviating poverty in the short term and increasing investment in human capital for children from poor families, so that they can achieve better living conditions in the...

Os Programas de Transferência Condicionada de Renda (PTCs) têm sido, amplamente, utilizados por vários governos de todo o mundo, com o objetivo duplo de aliviar a pobreza no curto prazo e aumentar o investimento em capital humano voltado para as crianças de famílias pobres, para que elas...