The objective of this text is to analyse with the PCV (Pesquisa sobre Condições de Vida) data, temporal evolution of the access to certain public policies in the social area and to quantify the distributive impact of the programs whose benefits are monetary. In relation to the temporal...

The objective of this text is to analyse with the PCV (Pesquisa sobre Condições de Vida) data, temporal evolution of the access to certain public policies in the social area and to quantify the distributive impact of the programs whose benefits are monetary. In relation to the temporal...

In dialog with an well-known and controversial book of two French economists (Cahuc and Zylberberg (2016)), we propose, in this article, to point out the mirage implied in attempts to consider economics as the “physics of the social sciences”. Given the availability of large datasets and the...

In this paper we study the roots of the turn-over in Brazil. The usual approach identifies the workers, with their speculated strategies, and the incentives given by the institucional/legal context as the principal source of the limited time horizon of the labour’s relations. We argue that...