This article discusses which may be the trajectory of the Brazilian economy over the 2020s, particularly in the transition from the current period when there is idle capacity in the economy to a period when the growth of supply capacity may again be crucial for growth. From the context created...

This paper aims to analyze the relation among exchange rate, distribution and economic growth from a short-term Keynesian-structuralist perspective. The domestic absorption is the cornerstone of the analysis, inasmuch as an exchange rate devaluation leads to an expansionist result in the...

This paper aims to analyze the history of Rural Social Security, as well as the structural imbalance of the social security system. The influence of social security spending was studied considering the national agricultural scenario and its complexity. In 2017, the rural pension balance closed...

We examine the extent to which education is a main determinant of affluence in Brazil. We focus on workers in the top 1% of the labor earnings distribution. We use university courses data from the Sample Questionnaire of the 2010 Census. Our main conclusion is that while education may be...

Agriculture modernization provides many sector benefits, such as increasing productivity, reducing production costs and increasing product quality and, thus, an intensive change in worker's activities. In this sense, the social, economic and demographic impacts of this change have been discussed...

This paper aims to analyze the history of Rural Social Security, as well as the structural imbalance of the social security system. The influence of social security spending was studied considering the national agricultural scenario and its complexity. In 2017, the rural pension balance closed...

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the origins of a critical process in the North American economy before the subprime crisis, namely, the increasing debt of households. It is argued that causes of this indebtedness are alterations in income distribution (an increased concentration of...

This paper analyzes the Brazilian case, the transient conditions of employment levels and income distribution in the country, using micro data from the Monthly Employment Survey (PME) produced by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) to assess the effects of macroeconomic...