This paper provides an analysis of the labor market for individuals with tertiary education in Brazil using data from … of study help to explain part of the labor earnings disparities among workers with tertiary education in Brazil. Also …

This paper estimates the consequences of mismatches between workers' attainment of vocational education and requirement … of this type of qualification in their occupations in Brazil. Two types of vocational education are investigated here …: vocational training and secondary vocational education, which are the most important in Brazil. Combining data from the 2007 PNAD …

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1 … main conclusion is that while education may be important to explain total inequality, there is no evidence that mass … education is a major factor explaining the differences between the rich and the rest of the population. Not even elite education …

reduce inequality and poverty and only a significant scale-up of university education would lead to much lower levels of … only have occurred under optimistic assumptions about growth, job-skill matching, and non-declining returns to education …. In short, education is not a panacea to poverty and inequality. These results are robust when tested with different data …

This paper applies multilevel models to Brazilian's tertiary education assessment data in order to test whether some of … education students. This sets a unique opportunity to model student achievement on tertiary education as a function of …

This study aims to analyze the evolution of access to higher education in the cohort 18-24 years, which is considered … the most adequate for this level of education. Initially, we question the use of this age group as a reference to measure … the degree of access to this level of education in Brazil. Then, we analyze some factors that establish close relationship …