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This article analyzes the effects of voluntary changes in maternity leave - through the Programa Empresa Cidadã (PEC) - from 120 days to 180 days on hiring and wages of female workers in companies that adhered to the program. For this purpose, we used the propensity score matching method...
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In this article, we analyze the role of work and study activities in the daily lives of young people aged 18 to 24, who live in low-income families in the city of Recife, Pernambuco. The dream of continuing to study or resuming the trajectory of studies is present as a central element in the...
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This article investigates the socioeconomic impacts of unemployment on different groups of individuals, and specially addresses the family circulation of goods and services during the job search. For this, it examines the vocabularies of 245 workers in semi-structured interviews carried out by...
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This text is part of the project Radiografia do Brasil Contemporâneo, developed by the Ipea between 2015 and 2016. Particularly, by a qualitative approach, the research analyzes the trajectories of individuals living in the city of Salvador, capital of Bahia, noting the experiences of family...
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This document presents a review on how youth issues have been dealt with in the field of social policies in Brazil. The first paper proposes an extensive approach to the theme by revising the main concepts of youth that have given shape to public policies and pointing out some of the crucial...
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The paper assess the effect of the Brazilian Conditional Cash Transfer Program, Bolsa Familia (BF), on school attendance among adolescent mothers relative to adolescent non-mothers, combining quantitative and qualitative technics. The quantitative analysis was based on the 2010 Census, and was...
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We examine how position in the life course, time availability, relative resources within a family, and compensatory response (gender display) determined gender inequalities in reproductive work among Brazilian couples in 2019 using panel data from the Brazilian National Household Continuous...
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This article discusses advances and contradictions of some proposed actions by Elder's Bill of Rights. This Bill was approved in 2003. Its main objective is to regulate the rights of older people in multiple spheres and dimensions. It gathers in a single document many of the bills and policies...
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In Brazil, as in most countries, income replacement policies for the loss of labor capacity are based on observed disability and on presumed disability caused by advanced age. The objective of this paper is to discuss the contradictions of the policies target to compensate the elderly population...
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With one of the largest territories in the world and a very extensive land border, surveillance and monitoring of this region are especially challenging for the Brazilian state. To overcome this challenge, the Integrated Border Monitoring System (SISFRON), the world's largest system of the kind,...
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