This article intends to verify the mismatching between qualification and education by sex, age, region, industrial sector and occupations. PNAD (National Household Survey) is our data source in the years 1981 to 2001. We observe over qualification in many occupations. Then, we have proposed an...

The paper introduces Henri Lefèbvre's concepts of terrorism and terrorist society in its relations with the contemporary world. Central Lefèbvrian concepts such as everyday life, bureaucratic society of organized consumption and its coercive mechanisms, and the urban society taken as space of...

The State of Minas Gerais - and more particularly our study-region - specialized, since the 1970s, in attracting natural resources intensive dirty industries. That type of regional industrial growth is linked to Brazil's - and Minas Gerais's in particular - insertion within the New International...

In this paper, we intend to identify some factors underlying the different rates of participation of self-employed workers in Brazilian municipalities. In contrast with previous analysis, our study is sensitive to the spatial dimension of self-employment in Brazil. Relying on geo-referenced data...

This paper analyzes the behavior of the historical series of a set of prices of food products and other and consumption products of household in Belo Horizonte, raised for "Cesta-Smab" in diverse supermarkets of the city in the years of 1999 and 2000. It approaches the main characteristics of...

One of the main characteristics of the Brazilian labor market is its impressively high job and worker turnover rates. Although labor legislation in Brazil is very restrictive, dismissal costs are not high when compared with other Latin American countries. Moreover, many authors argue that the...

This paper departs from John Roemer's formulation of the theory of equality of opportunities. It seeks to determine what part of observed outcome inequality may be attributed to differences in observed 'circumstances', including family background, and what part is due to 'personal efforts'. We...

Cash transfers targeted to poor people, but conditional on some behavior on their part, such as school attendance or regular visits to health care facilities, are being adopted in a growing number of developing countries. Even where ex-post impact evaluations have been conducted, a number of...