Diversos trabalhos evidenciam que países pobres apresentam população com saúde precária. E a relação entre saúde e pobreza é tratada, na literatura, como sendo possivelmente bi-causal, uma vez que um baixo nível de renda causaria saúde precária, e essa por sua vez, tenderia a causar...

The paper investigates de relationship between employment rate and mortality rate in Brazil during the period 1981-2002. It briefly reviews the literature on macroeconomic conditions and health, emphasizing the existence of two controversial hypothesis. The Ruhm's Hypothesis suggest that high...

This paper analyses the inverted-U hypothesis between income inequality and economic growth to the cities of northeast of Brazil from 1970 to 1991. To it was used econometric analysis of cross section and panel data to the information from Atlas de Desenvolvimento Humano no Brasil. The results...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate skilled labor demand determinants in Brazil, considering alternatives explanations: changes in relative wages, non-homothetic technology output growth and skill-biased technical change. Design/methodology/approach This study relies on a rich and...

Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of family structure on child labor by comparing children of nuclear families headed by the father with children of single-mother families headed by the divorced mother. Design/methodology/approach: This paper uses data from Brazilian...

A sustentabilidade da Previdência Social no século XXI é analisada sob a ótica da dinâmica demográfica e do crescimento da produtividade. Argumenta-se que a sustentabilidade não depende de superávits contábeis, mas da manutenção da trajetória temporal do custo dentro da capacidade de...

The objective of this paper is to briefly evaluate the program of unemployment insurance in Brazil, covering the period from 1986 to 1998. The text emphasizes the nature, the duration and some other characteristics of the repeated usage of the benefit, as well as the implications of this fact...