The goal of this paper is twofold. First, it seeks to provide some empirical evidence on the importance of a continuous process of educational expansion for equitable and sustainable socioeconomic development. Second, it provides an evaluation of the Brazilian educational performance and seeks...

O objetivo do Cadastro Único para Programas Sociais (CadÚnico) é o cadastramento e a manutenção de informações atualizadas de todas as famílias brasileiras com renda per capita inferior a R$ 120. Embora a utilização do CadÚnico continue centrada na seleção dos beneficiários do...

Neste trabalho buscamos avaliar a importância do estabelecimento de cotas locais para o grau de focalização do Programa Bolsa Família (PBF). Com um grau de focalização da ordem de 57%, o ganho do atual sistema de seleção de beneficiários do PBF, quando contrastado a uma situação em...

Poverty is necessarily a multidimensional concept. The need to rank countries, regions, neighbohoods, time periods, social groups even families requires, however, a scalar representation. A traditional solution has been to limit the concept of poverty to insufficient income. Recently, however,...

In this paper we avaluate the contribution of two different forms of discrimination (by gender and color) and three different types of segmentation (spacial, sectorial and between the formal and informal segments) in the labor market, regarding the reduction of the inequality degree in the labor...

In the last years, we are testifying an important changing in the Brazilian income distribution. Since 2001, inequality is decreasing considerably. Nevertheless, Brazil is still one of the world champions with respect to high inequality, which makes the sustainability of this decreasing one...

In this paper we avaluate the contribution of two different forms of discrimination (by gender and color) and three different types of segmentation (spacial, sectorial and between the formal and informal segments) in the labor market, regarding the reduction of the inequality degree in the labor...

Uma das razões da ineficiência educacional brasileiro encontra-se na forma de gestão escolar. Desde as eleições diretas para governador em 1982 deslanchou-se no país um processo de difusão de inovações em gestão escolar. Este proceso atingiu velocidade e intensidade distintas nos...

The objective of this paper is to identify whether the prevailing Brazilian labor market regulations, largely the result of the 1988 constitutional change, have any impact on labor market performance. To reach this objective we explore alternative methodologies, sources of information and...

This study has two central objectives. We first describe in detail the structure and behavior of Brazilian families during their life cycle. [1] Secondly, we investigate the main socioeconomic determining factors of alterations in families structure and behavior over the past few decades. We...