During last two decades, Brazil presented an enormous inequality in income distribution and great poverty level. Thus, this work aims describe the actual situation and temporal evolution of the magnitude and nature of poverty and inequality in Brazil during this period and investigate the...

Over the past seventeen years the Brazilian macroeconomic performance has been considerably weaker than in previous decades. Inflation reached unprecedented levels and economic growth declined considerably. Despite the overall perception that macroeconomic performance is closely related to...

Recent changes in public employment in Brazil generate costs to workers that leave this sector. In this study we investigate the wage loss that leaving public employees may experience if they were absorbed by the private sector. Using microdata from the Pesquisa Nacional por Amostra de...